Beyond the Bathroom: Centering and Affirming Non-Binary Trans Perspectives in Heath Fogg Davis’s “Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?”
Jacob Lau on “Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?” and the importance of challenging the sex-discrimination regime at its administrative heart....
Street Fighting Men: Antifa’s Origins in the ’60s and ’70s
Mark Bray misses opportunities to convincingly rebut antifa skeptics....
Our National Scream: On Jared Yates Sexton’s “The People Are Going to Rise Like Waters Upon Your Shore”
Jared Yates Sexton’s new book on the Trump phenomena is keenly observed — but without the necessary questions....
We Can’t Stem the Tide of Language Death
Laura McPherson on the importance of documenting endangered languages before they vanish....
The Ins and Outs of Europe’s Deep Establishment
Stan Persky looks at Yanis Varoufakis's "Adults in the Room," the memoir of Varoufakis's brief tenure as Greece’s minister of finance in 2015....
Black Threads in the Civic Quilt
Rahuldeep Gill considers Ta-Nehisi Coates's "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy."...
To Be Continued, or Who Lost the Civil War?
Keenan Norris on the durability of Confederate kitsch....
Remaking the University: Metrics Noir
A review of three trenchant critiques of the culture of metrics....
Money for Nothing
A book proposing a universal basic income makes some compelling arguments, but falls short of closing the deal, says our reviewer....
The Once and Future Mark Lilla
Mark Lilla’s incendiary new book is at once a stirring call for liberal unity, and an argument that shows some defects on closer scrutiny....
Syria’s Kurdish Contradiction
Bill Weinberg reviews several recent books about Kurdish autonomy movement....
Democracy Wasn’t the Panacea for Myanmar
A new book lays bare the tensions still coursing through Myanmar, and lays some of the blame at the door of democracy’s hero, Aung San Suu Kyi....
