A new global story of food tracks the rise of “middling cuisine,” but neglects to read for the hungry

The European Union is a grand act of forgetting, but, in the novels of Ágota Kristóf, the violence of Europe's past keeps coming back to the surface

Understanding capitalism’s use of fossil fuels to control labor puts us in a better position to fight it

Art, so often used by developers to mask the violence of displacement, can instead be used to resist gentrification

In Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer, the war over the Vietnam War rages on

So-called left-wing Zionism is white nationalism by another name

Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks

Steven Shaviro's new book teaches us how to navigate in a world where objects are peers

Tom McCarthy’s new novel is attentive to the fibers of our social networks, but forgetful of its fleshy reader

Maurizio Lazzarato's latest book seeks to answer, “What is to be done?”