Navigating Freedom With Cass Sunstein Navigating Freedom With Cass Sunstein
When nudges won’t set you free.
Jun 3, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
Melii Is Not Playing Around Melii Is Not Playing Around
The Afro-Latina Harlem rapper’s brash music slides seamlessly between languages, cultures, and the boundaries of genre.
May 30, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Julyssa Lopez
Mange Meat Mange Meat
We’re so late-stage that we trade our storm-wet cash for synthetic fuzz, as if fleece wasn’t the shorn warmth of a bleating thing. There is a new wolf in me this winter and I can’t…
May 21, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Alicia Mountain
Twenty-First Century Woman / Ankle-Length Cardigans / Looking in the Mirror Twenty-First Century Woman / Ankle-Length Cardigans / Looking in the Mirror
Twenty-First Century Woman I don’t know how to turn on a TV anymore Ankle-Length Cardigans Great returns on the pavement produce false ideas of equity in the guarantee tha…
May 21, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Amanda Nadelberg
John Lanchester’s Eerily Resonant Novel About Borders and Rising Sea Levels John Lanchester’s Eerily Resonant Novel About Borders and Rising Sea Levels
His speculative new novel, The Wall, imagines a dystopian future but offers us a warning about our present.
May 20, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Laila Lalami
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Social Democracy Martin Luther King Jr.’s Social Democracy
In her new book, King and the Other America, historian Sylvie Laurent situates the Poor People’s Campaign and Martin Luther King Jr.’s later years in a longer history of ...
May 20, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Robert Greene II
David Treuer’s Monumental History of Native American Life in the 20th Century David Treuer’s Monumental History of Native American Life in the 20th Century
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee tells the story of Native life as it flourished amidst hardship.
May 20, 2019 / Books & the Arts / E. Tammy Kim
Jenny Odell and the Quest to Log Off Jenny Odell and the Quest to Log Off
Can we escape the Internet?
May 20, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Lozano
Julius Scott’s Epic About Black Resistance in the Age of Revolution Julius Scott’s Epic About Black Resistance in the Age of Revolution
Modeled after Braudel’s masterpiece on the Mediterranean, The Common Wind helps recovers the radical world of black mariners, rebels, and runaways banding together to realize ...
May 20, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Manisha Sinha
The Political Odyssey of Sean Wilentz The Political Odyssey of Sean Wilentz
How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.
May 20, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Shenk