Small Culture, Big Mistakes
Philip Ó Ceallaigh reviews a well-researched and compelling study of intellectual life in 1930s Romania....
How Human Rights Were Defanged from Any Truly Emancipatory Potential
Is “human rights” merely another route toward economic plunder?...
It’s Between Us: Lukas Bärfuss’s Georg Büchner Prize Acceptance Speech
Tess Lewis translates Swiss author Lukas Bärfuss’s Georg Büchner Prize acceptance speech....
America Is Hard to See
As much as it is a portrait of Steve Bannon, "American Dharma" is also a story about the political and media class’s hypnotism by apocalyptic visions....
A Century of Fighting for Civil Liberties
Stephen Rohde reviews "Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases."...
Hope Is a Complicated Concept: An Interview with Behrouz Boochani
Emanuel Stoakes talks to Behrouz Boochani, the Iranian-Kurdish writer formerly detained at Manus refugee camp who won the Victorian Prize for Literature....
Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights Movement, and American Jews
Peter Dreier surveys the long history of the black-Jewish alliance for civil rights....
Step by Step Across California: A Conversation with Nick Neely
A nature writer walks the route of a 1769 expedition to learn about California and his own childhood....
Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Yxta Maya Murray on Artists’ Responses to 9/11
Reeling from 9/11 but working on projects begun during the Clinton boom, some artists in 2002 were still able to romanticize millenarianism and the future....
Unconsciousness Raising: On Franny Nudelman’s “Fighting Sleep”
Sleep is not just a factor in wartime; it’s also a method of protesting war....
Utopian Experiments: On Katherine Franke’s “Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition”
Sabrina Alli reviews Katherine Franke's new book, "Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition."...
Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene
Daniel Swift reviews "Literature and Nature in the English Renaissance: An Ecocritical Anthology," a new book by Todd Andrew Borlik....
