"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
Ashley Dawson thinks about the future through Nicholas Beuret’s “Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition” and Thea Riofrancos’s “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism.”
Robert N. Watson investigates Thomas Chatterton Williams’s “Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse.”
Peter B. Kaufman considers Whitney Phillips and Mark Brockway’s “The Shadow Gospel: How Anti-Liberal Demonology Possessed U.S. Religion, Media, and Politics.”
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan reviews Faisal Devji’s “Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam.”
Martin Laflamme traces the history and future of globalization through three recent books on China’s techno-nationalism.
In advance of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton’s forthcoming book “The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late,” Genevieve Guenther revisits the authors’ 2024 title “Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown.”
Alan Barenberg considers Michael David-Fox’s “Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule.”
Anne Stevenson-Yang reviews Robert L. Suettinger’s “The Conscience of the Party” and Joseph Torigian’s “The Party’s Interests Come First.”
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld reviews Alec Ryrie’s “The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It.”
David Palumbo-Liu considers Linda Quiquivix’s “Palestine 1492: A Report Back.”
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho explores Ho Sok Fong’s “Lake Like a Mirror,” translated by Natascha Bruce, and Lau Yee-Wa’s “Tongueless,” translated by Jennifer Feeley.
Graham J. Murphy considers Badiucao and Melissa Chan’s “You Must Take Part in Revolution.”
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