The Indypendent
Books
We Built It, We Can Tear It Down
Review: “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America”
By James Forman Jr.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017
Salvaging New York’s Lost Soul
Review: “Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul”
By Jeremiah Moss
Dey Street Books, 2017
A review of “Hegemony How-to: A Roadmap for Radicals” By Jonathan Matthew Smucker (AK Press, 2017).
The most devastating insight in Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes’ new book comes on the second page of the…
Becky Bond and Zack Exley’s Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything is part of a recent…
In his critically acclaimed new novel, Omar El Akkad imagines battle lines drawn over fossil fuels.
Finding Seeds of the Future in the Present
Peter Frase’s “Four Futures” is an ambitious attempt to grapple with what climate change and automation mean for left politics.
The Rise and Fall of American Growth By Robert J. Gordon Princeton University Press 2016 Darkness defined the American…