History Against the Grain
A new global story of food tracks the rise of “middling cuisine,” but neglects to read for the hungry
Continental Drift
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
Coal Comfort
Understanding capitalism’s use of fossil fuels to control labor puts us in a better position to fight it
Evicted Utopias
Art, so often used by developers to mask the violence of displacement, can instead be used to resist gentrification
Spy vs. History
In Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer, the war over the Vietnam War rages on
Justice in One Country
So-called left-wing Zionism is white nationalism by another name
Defending Rojava
A new book points to the ways Rojava can be defended from ISIS, Turkey and the Western left.
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
Panpsychism's Labyrinth
Steven Shaviro's new book teaches us how to navigate in a world where objects are peers
Adventures in Candyland
Tom McCarthy’s new novel is attentive to the fibers of our social networks, but forgetful of its fleshy reader
Sleepwalking Through the Ruins
Maurizio Lazzarato's latest book seeks to answer, “What is to be done?”