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The Merry Month of May: A Firsthand History of ’68 France
Where are the riots of yesteryear? This month marks the 50th anniversary of the wave of radical revolts and…
When Father Finds You on Grindr
A look at Uzodinma Iweala’s new novel about a gay teen’s coming-out nightmare.
Alsarah: The Sounds We Smuggle Inside Us
The lead singer of Alsarah & The Nubatones discusses her roots, music and her favorite childhood mixtape.
New Eugene Debs Film Does the Socialist Proud
A charismatic and militant labor leader, five-time Socialist Party presidential candidate, class-war prisoner jailed by the ostensibly liberal Woodrow…
Fear and Loathing at the Tribeca Film Festival
I’m sitting in a press screening for The Miseducation of Cameron Post at the Tribeca Film Festival and I…
Lou Andreas-Salomé vs. The Patriarchy
The German philosopher insisted on being the master of her own fate even as she inflamed the hearts and minds of some of the late 19th Century’s greatest thinkers.
‘Angels in America’: The Other Side of the American Dream
For both conservatives and liberals during the 1980s, the explosion of the HIV/AIDS crisis felt like the result of…
A More Complex Portrait of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
In A History More Beautiful and Terrible: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History, Brooklyn College political scientist…
Meet the Nazi’s Next Door in ‘This is Our Land’
Two women in their forties are sitting eating salads in a diner. One says to the other: “It’s now…