For the Love of Glamour: American Aristocracy from Twain to Trump
Are people—and the United States—doomed to be the subalterns of the aristocrats?
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
Are people—and the United States—doomed to be the subalterns of the aristocrats?
Mark EdmundsonApr 14
Jeffrey J. Williams interviews Doran Larson about the American Prison Writing Archive and his new book, “Inside Knowledge: Incarcerated People on the...
Jeffrey J. WilliamsApr 12
Tom Allen reviews Hannah Proctor’s “Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat.”
Tom AllenApr 10
Ned Resnikoff reviews Pamela Robertson Wojcik’s “Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema.”
Ned ResnikoffApr 10
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...
Martin LaflammeApr 1
Christopher Newfield reviews Bruce Robbins’s “Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction.”
Christopher NewfieldMar 24
Meena Venkataramanan reviews two novels imagining the experiences of English literary figures George Orwell and W. Somerset Maugham in Southeast Asia...
Meena VenkataramananMar 22
Jimmy So analyzes what “Oppenheimer” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” have to say about America.
Jimmy SoMar 20
Sasha Vasilyuk interviews Katya Apekina about her second novel, “Mother Doll.”
Sasha VasilyukMar 12
Noah Sparkes reviews Amitav Ghosh’s “Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories.”
Noah SparkesMar 2
David N. Myers reviews Nathan Thrall’s “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy” and Mikhael Manekin’s “End of Days: Ethics...
David N. MyersMar 1
For the Rules We Live By series, Julien Crockett interviews Carlo Ratti and Antoine Picon about their new book “Atlas of the Senseable City.”
Julien CrockettFeb 29