Calling on “black cyberpunk,” Roy Christopher’s book Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future bestows the genre with a ghostly pallor, risking its political potential

Debates about the propriety of where animals belong reveal how we apprehend human suffering in isolation

Gay male intimacy across stark differences of age, power, and money does not transcend these inequities; it depends on them.

Adoption stories usually begin with the conceit of orphans, when oftentimes the mothers are still alive.

When sex-work decriminalization will never be enough, we have to find other ways to keep each other alive

To bury a loved one from Queens is to confront displacement in the here and beyond

An interview with Nick Estes about his new book, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

Coming forward with the state's secrets is not a ticket to absolution

Aestheticizing the expansion of the prison industrial complex

How a bee got marked a killer in the crisscrossing narratives of species and the social

Governing empire was deadening to its administrators, and lethal to its victims

Kristen R. Ghodsee’s new book about sex under socialism obstructs demands for the impossible

Art moguls, real-estate developers, city institutions, and local elites unite in the name of development for the few, displacement for the many

The Italian philosopher of gloom takes a surprising turn