Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban captivates by virtue of the ways in which it least resembles the kinds of novels we know

Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America suggests that white guilt is only a distant feeling

There are, broadly, two kinds of structural lonelinesses. One is the benign loneliness of the socially alienated, the other the malignant melancholy of the erstwhile master.

What underpins the anxiety of a future world without Holocaust survivors?

23andMe makes the human body immortal at last

Parasitic governance, as a modality of the new racial capitalism, uses five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automated processing, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence.

The Florida Project and the New Proletarian Cinema of 2017 tell of the persistence and loss of dreams

Heroic tales about video-game production mask how the hobby holds both its audience and performers captive

Dreams of a separatist Quebec nation are founded on conservative, racist attachments to bloodline that leftist adherents cannot so quickly disavow

Jaskiran Dhillon’s new book Prairie Rising is an ethnographic exposure of how Canadian services for Indigenous youth perpetuate carceral coloniality.

Power shows its ugliest tentacles most clearly in the figures of the predator and the jokester

A review of Nabokov’s Dreams

Animals require a politics of labor

Capitalism breaks the body of the worker to the benefit of the state and factory owner that might intervene and facilitate its repair

Objectivity in American newsrooms is a pastiche of colonial subjectivities