The Indypendent
Books
At first glance, the Novotny-Clissold family, protagonists of Julie E. Justicz’s Degrees of Difficulty, seem pretty garden variety: white…
Annie Ernaux’s Autobiographical Novel Offers a Warning to Supporters of Women’s Rights
When French feminist Annie Ernaux was a 23-year-old student at Rouen University, she faced an unplanned and undesired pregnancy.…
In ‘The End of the Myth,’ Greg Grandin Explores America’s Inner War From Its Outer Edges
As indicated by its title, historian Greg Grandin’s The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border…
Gay Old Brooklyn: Hugh Ryan Takes a Look at the Borough’s Queer Past
Hugh Ryan got the idea to write When Brooklyn Was Queer when he held pop-up queer history exhibit parties…
A Poet Recounts Teaching at Men’s Prisons in ‘Hummingbird’
From 1992 to 2008, award-winning poet and playwright Deborah Tobola taught writing to inmates at several men’s prisons in…
Activist Scholars Take on Big Developers
Hudson Yards, New York City’s newest neighborhood, costing the city 5.6 billion taxpayer dollars, opened March 15. Who asked…
Dana Frank Offers Lessons from Latin America in ‘Long Honduran Night’
Indypendent readers most likely know Honduras as the site of a right-wing coup in 2009 and as one of…
Labor Conflict: With ‘Birth Strike’ Jenny Brown Tackles the Population Decline
It took more than a decade of litigation by feminist plaintiffs for Plan B, known as the “morning-after pill,”…
When Women Take on Mass Incarceration
If you feel fed-up with criminal justice reform efforts touted by the Koch brothers that leave our prison industrial…
