The Return of Fun: BOOM! Box Comics Make Progressive Politics Entertaining
Aaron Kashtan looks at the many innovative and noteworthy comics coming out of BOOM! Box imprint....
Fabulous, Tragic Kurt Tucholsky
One of the best-paid German journalists in the 1920s, Kurt Tucholsky was the canary in the coal mine of the Weimar Republic....
From Pariahs to the Privileged: On Keri Leigh Merritt’s “Masterless Men”
"As poor whites began to enjoy more of the privileges of whiteness, symbols of the slaveholders’ crusade came to represent general whiteness."...
A New New White Man: Toni Morrison’s “Playing in the Dark” Turns 25
Joseph Darda on the enduring importance of Toni Morrison’s “Playing in the Dark” as the pathbreaking collection turns 25....
Red House: The Rise and Fall of Bolshevism Under One Roof
Max Holleran reviews “The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution” by Yuri Slezkine....
Awaiting the Real Day: An Excerpt from Yuri Slezkine’s “The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution”
An excerpt from “The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution” by Yuri Slezkine, published this month by Princeton University Press....
The Marikana Massacre: Five Years Later
Alex Lichtenstein reviews two new books on the Marikana Massacre....
The Bird Has Flown: Sevan Nişanyan on His Escape from Turkish Prison
Turkish intellectual Sevan Nişanyan talks to Nick Ashdown about his escape from prison....
The Newark Rebellion at 50, and the Ghost of Ron Porambo
On the 50th anniversary of the Newark riots, our reviewer remembers the most important book to come out of the event that you’ve never heard of....
The Feminist Uses of Narrative Fiction: Jill Filipovic’s “The H-Spot” and the Search for Women’s Happiness
Jill Filipovic’s latest rehearses the arguments we’ve heard before, but the stories of the women she interviews show the real power of feminist imagination....
Riding the Tiger, Riding the Wave: Christian Conservatives and Radical Anti-Modernism
Benjamin R. Teitelbaum on the resonance between the works of authors Charles Chaput and Rod Dreher and those of fascist anti-modernist Julius Evola....
The Soft Nationalism of Amma, India’s Hugging Saint
India’s “hugging saint” may not be warm and cozy in her politics, says our correspondent....
