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Imagine It Gone: On Megan Kimble’s “City Limits”
David Alff reviews Megan Kimble’s “City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways.”
Economics and Finance
Meeting Labor’s Moment: On Hamilton Nolan’s “The Hammer”
Joseph A. McCartin reviews “The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of American Labor.”
A Democratic and Peaceful Existence: On Jonathan Sullivan and Lev Nachman’s “Taiwan”
Catherine Chou discusses “Taiwan: A Contested Democracy Under Threat” by Jonathan Sullivan and Lev Nachman.
All Together Now: On Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor’s “Solidarity”
A pair of activist-intellectuals look at the history of solidarity and the limitations of charity.
A Tax Haven in a Heartless World: On Melinda Cooper’s “Counterrevolution”
Sarah Brouillette reviews Melinda Cooper’s “Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance.”
From Aspiration to Constriction: On Three New Books Examining Change in China
Martin Laflamme reviews three recent books that help understand the opening of China during the 1980s–2000s, and its closing again under Xi Jinping’s rule in the 2010s.
Speculative Finance and Predatory Abstraction: On Jonas Eika’s “After the Sun”
Ali Rıza Taşkale analyzes the way Jonas Eika’s short story collection “After the Sun” critiques speculative finance and offers new ways to imagine the potentials of the future.
Rethinking the Work Ethic: On Elizabeth Anderson’s “Hijacked”
Helen Hester reviews Elizabeth Anderson’s “Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back.”
Empire and Liberalism—a Saidian Reading: On Jeanne Morefield’s “Unsettling the World”
Conor McCarthy reviews Jeanne Morefield’s “Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory.”
Race, Money, and the Pursuit of Poetry in the US Today: A Conversation with Megan Fernandes and Edgar Kunz
Natasha Hakimi Zapata interviews Megan Fernandes and Edgar Kunz about their new poetry collections.
Nothing for Something: Cryptos, Cons, and Zombies
Peter Lunenfeld traces the persistence of classic con games in the current explosion of cryptocurrency markets.
Capitalists Inside a Communist State: On Two Books and the Puzzle of Chinese Billionaires
Carey Mott reviews two books about the blurred lines between communism and capitalism in China: Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao’s “Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise” and Scott Moore’s “China’s Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China’s Rise and the World’s Future.”
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