Politics

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Small Culture, Big Mistakes
Philip Ó Ceallaigh reviews a well-researched and compelling study of intellectual life in 1930s Romania.
Philip Ó CeallaighJan 24, 2020
How Human Rights Were Defanged from Any Truly Emancipatory Potential
Is “human rights” merely another route toward economic plunder?
Neve GordonJan 24, 2020
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.
Lukas Bärfuss, Tess LewisJan 22, 2020
- Around the World
- Politics
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.
Ryan MeehanJan 21, 2020
- Film
- Politics
A Century of Fighting for Civil Liberties
Stephen Rohde reviews "Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases."
Stephen RohdeJan 19, 2020
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.
Emanuel StoakesJan 18, 2020
- Around the World
- Politics
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.
Peter DreierJan 18, 2020
- Politics
- Religion
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.
Scott BurtonJan 17, 2020
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.
Yxta Maya MurrayJan 17, 2020
- Art & Architecture
- Politics
Unconsciousness Raising: On Franny Nudelman’s “Fighting Sleep”
Sleep is not just a factor in wartime; it’s also a method of protesting war.
Benjamin ReissJan 16, 2020
- History
- Politics
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."
Sabrina AlliJan 15, 2020
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.
Daniel SwiftJan 15, 2020
- Literary Criticism
- Politics