In Marx’s Republic In Marx’s Republic
Did Capital offer us visions of freedom as well as domination?
Apr 4, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Luban
Flirtations With Anarchy Flirtations With Anarchy
Two new films take different approaches to Joseph Stalin and Karl Marx, two major figures of modern political history.
Mar 30, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Young Fathers Find a New Sound Young Fathers Find a New Sound
The band’s sense of what would pass for fitting into the pop-music mainstream is draped in their own idiosyncrasies.
Mar 29, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Briana Younger
Fable of the Firstborn Fable of the Firstborn
In the beginning, I was neither image nor identity. Time was a quickening; I was my own dark-watered well. There was no hankering there, just another native world and its wishes. W…
Mar 29, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Tarfia Faizullah
What to Do About the Police? What to Do About the Police?
Two new books examine the austerity policies and administrative overreach behind the expansion of local law enforcement.
Mar 29, 2018 / Books & the Arts / E. Tammy Kim
Coming to Terms With Ezra Pound’s Politics Coming to Terms With Ezra Pound’s Politics
What is the relationship between Pound’s fascism and his poetry?
Mar 28, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Evan Kindley
Joyce J. Scott’s Coexisting Forces Joyce J. Scott’s Coexisting Forces
Scott’s art is unabashedly political, broaching subjects like guns, racism, and misogyny. It’s also gorgeous, rich with tactile materials, color, and an attention to light.
Mar 26, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Jillian Steinhauer
On a Sentence by Fernanda Melchor On a Sentence by Fernanda Melchor
¿Qué es lo más cabrón que te ha pasado en la vida? The most fucked-up thing to happen to me? Addled by busyness, I crumpled my life and let it drop and then I outlived my life, roc…
Mar 23, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Forrest Gander
Sunset Pool Sunset Pool
Things are where we wanted them to be. These cutouts—blue—on the city, spread Like holes in the folds of a map: I walk Into them, little frames of a sequence In which I am a person…
Mar 22, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Amadon
The World of ‘Crime and Punishment’ The World of ‘Crime and Punishment’
A new translation captures the painful backdrop of Dostoyevsky’s classic: the poverty, crime, and violence that shaped much of everyday life in 19th-century St. Petersburg.
Mar 22, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson