![The first family to move into the Levittown development in New York, 1947.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-1127559077.jpg)
Can You Put a Dollar Amount on White Privilege? Can You Put a Dollar Amount on White Privilege?
Tracie McMillan’s The White Bonus attempts to quantify the literal cost of racism in America.
Jul 18, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kristen Martin
![A figure looks at the dynamic map board showing power distribution through California’s electrical grids in the control center of the California Independent System Operator, 2004.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-51155301.jpeg)
The World’s Problems Explained in One Issue: Electricity The World’s Problems Explained in One Issue: Electricity
Brett Christophers’s account of the market-induced failure to transition to renewables is his latest entry in a series of books demystifying a multi-pronged global crisis.
Jul 17, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Trevor Jackson
![The first family to move into the Levittown development in New York, 1947.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2063657638.jpeg)
The Planetary Vision of Soviet Russia’s Great Modernist Novel The Planetary Vision of Soviet Russia’s Great Modernist Novel
Andrey Platonov’s masterpiece Chevengur imagined a politics of solidarity that placed at its center the health of the planet.
Jul 16, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Maria Chehonadskih
![Christina Ramberg, “Untitled (Hand),” 1971.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/MixCollage-09-Jul-2024-01-08-PM-5304.jpeg)
Christina Ramberg’s Public Secrets Christina Ramberg’s Public Secrets
A look at the life and work of one Chicago's great 20th-century painters.
Jul 15, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
![President of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige, 2019.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-1170001752.jpg)
The Rise and Fall of the Marvel Cinematic Universe The Rise and Fall of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
How a movie studio and its head honcho redefined moviemaking for the worst.
Jul 11, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kyle Paoletta
![Anya Taylor-Joy in “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.”](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/rev-1-FUR-TRL-016_High_Res_JPEG.jpeg)
Why Did “Furiosa” Flop? Why Did “Furiosa” Flop?
A web of interconnected reasons might explain why George Miller’s long-awaited new entry to his Mad Max series failed in the box office.
Jul 10, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Vikram Murthi
![In Poetry’s Church](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Frere-Jones-Poetry_Project.jpg)
In Poetry’s Church In Poetry’s Church
More than a half century of the Poetry Project
Jul 8, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Sasha Frere-Jones
![LaToya Ruby Frazier’s “Zion, Her Mother Shea, and Her Grandfather Mr. Smiley Riding on Their Tennessee Walking Horses, Mares, P.T. (P.T.’s Miss One of a Kind), Dolly (Secretly), and Blue (Blue’s Royal Threat), Newton, Mississippi.”](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Steinhauer-documentary.jpg)
LaToya Ruby Frazier Rewrites the Rules of Documentary Photography LaToya Ruby Frazier Rewrites the Rules of Documentary Photography
A new career survey at the MoMA is a perfect illustration of the photographer's mission: to reframe how viewers see the working-class and low-income people whom she counts as kin....
Jul 3, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Jillian Steinhauer
![Harriet Tubman in 1868 or 1869.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jackson-Harriet_Tubman.jpg)
The Many Lives of Harriet Tubman The Many Lives of Harriet Tubman
Tiya Miles’s Night Flyer is a landmark biography of one of 19th-century America’s most important figures.
Jul 2, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kellie Carter Jackson
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Can the Constitution Save Us? Can the Constitution Save Us?
The Constitution is often invoked as a safeguard for American democracy, but does it more often get in democracy’s way?
Jul 2, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Jedediah Britton-Purdy