Platonov’s Weeping Cow
Samuel Liu appreciates the Soviet-era author Andrei Platonov, who “deforms language to match the contortion of his emotional need.”
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
Henry Wallace and the Road Not Taken
The Democrats’ turn away from New Deal economic radicalism toward corporate soft power began in 1944 with the dumping of an influential vice president.
The Way We Speak Now: On David Bromwich’s “Writing Politics”
The American talent for wordplay can reinvigorate ideas and bring transformative politics.
The Myth of Mestizaje
A celebrated Mexican anthropologist explodes one of his nation’s founding myths.
Life Isn’t a Narrative: A Conversation with JoAnn Wypijewski
The author of “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo” discusses the irrationality of sex panics.
What Should I Do with Such a Man?: On “Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture”
A new biography does the seemingly impossible: it casts new light on the much-studied founding father of Haiti.
Abolition from Below: On the Underground Railroad to México
María Esther Hammack reviews “South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War” by Alice L. Baumgartner.
They Wanted to Bury Us: A Conversation with Andalusia Knoll Soloff
Andalusia Knoll Soloff reflects on the sixth anniversary of the Ayotzinapa forced disappearances.
“This Constructed Self of Mine”: On the Narrative Possibilities of Racial Melancholia
Kim Hew-Low on the ways BIPOC writers assemble their stories.
Reading Mike Davis in Toronto: Police Violence and the Global City
David Helps on the city where “City of Quartz” was written.
Moving on Up — and Out: On L. Benjamin Rolsky’s “The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left”
John Compton reviews L. Benjamin Rolsky's recently published book, "The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left."
The Myth of the “Undeserving Poor”: A Conversation with Pat LaMarche
Pat LaMarche discusses her first YA novel and the myths about poverty it rebuts.
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