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Ian Brennan Knocks Pop Stars Off Their Pedestal With his New Book
Ian Brennan’s Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth is a polemic against the domination of the world’s ears…
Ryan Grim Goes Inside The Democrats’ Long Civil War
Like many leftists of his generation, Ryan Grim, 41, cut his teeth on street confrontations with the police during…
Vasily Grossman’s epic novel of the Battle of Stalingrad published in U.S. for first time.
Bhaskar Sunkara and Astra Taylor Explore Socialism and Democracy in Two New Books
Only 10 years ago, the meanings of “democracy” and “socialism” seemed stable in the United States. The U.S. was…
A Parisian Present Intrudes on a Long Island Past in Mary Fleming’s ‘Art of Regret’
At the start of Mary Fleming’s insightful second novel, The Art of Regret, Paris resident Trevor McFarquhar is something…
Gazing Into the ‘Trick Mirror’ With Jia Tolentino
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion is a collection of essays that are all about — in some way or…
In Steven Greenhouse’s Latest, Workers are Down But Not Defeated
We live in a paradoxical time. On the one hand, workers and organized labor are in their worst state…
In ‘One Foot In the Grave’ Working-Class Heroes Fight Zika
A working-class hero is something to be,” sang John Lennon, author and activist, Timothy Sheard proves him right in…
At first glance, the Novotny-Clissold family, protagonists of Julie E. Justicz’s Degrees of Difficulty, seem pretty garden variety: white…