The Broken College Ranking System The Broken College Ranking System
A fairer rankings system would highlight universities like Georgia State and CUNY, whose mission is to help students from poor families enter the middle class, rather than fixating...
Aug 15, 2022 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp
Julius Eastman’s Great Expectations Julius Eastman’s Great Expectations
The neglected music of a revolutionary 20th-century composer continues to shock and awe.
Aug 12, 2022 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu
The Photographs of the Border The Photographs of the Border
In More Than a Wall / Más que un Muro, labor journalist David Bacon offers a politically rich, bilingual compilation of photographs and oral histories.
Aug 11, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Aviva Chomsky
Steven Thrasher on “The Viral Underclass” Steven Thrasher on “The Viral Underclass”
The Nation spoke with Thrasher about who makes up the viral underclass—the subject of his new book—and what we should do to confront the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Aug 11, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Charlotte Rosen
The Toxic History of the Salton Sea The Toxic History of the Salton Sea
A new book by Traci Brynne Voyles catalogs the alarming events that created one of the West’s most polluted bodies of water.
Aug 10, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Kyle Paoletta
less hope less hope
apologies. i was part of the joy industrial complex, told them their bodies were miracles & they ate it, sold someday, made money off soon & now. i snuck an ode into the el…
Aug 9, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Danez Smith
Closure Closure
Is it the eight titanium pins around my knees or the fact that for three months the incisions were left open? I grew to know that plush of inside— the velvets, the iodine to preven…
Aug 9, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Sheila Black
Keith Gessen’s Adventures in Parenting Keith Gessen’s Adventures in Parenting
In his new book about parenting, Gessen offers a tour of anxieties set in the semi-gentrified Brooklyn of the 2020s.
Aug 9, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Ryu Spaeth
Ottessa Moshfegh’s Cruel Worlds Ottessa Moshfegh’s Cruel Worlds
In her new novel, Moshfegh explores the brutish world of the Middle Ages.
Aug 8, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Elvia Wilk
Juan Emar’s Forgotten Vanguard Juan Emar’s Forgotten Vanguard
Influenced by the Surrealists, the obscure Chilean novelist took to task the social realist status quo in his magical fiction.
Aug 4, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Hanson O’Haver