A new book follows a rising generation of labor organizers as they attempt to unionize their workplaces.

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Where hope even has a gift shop.

His most experimental and unsettling book, Transcription as us whether art is futile or the most important weapon we have.

The transformation of a once promising, if conservative, magazine journalist into a conspiracy-minded talking head.

The transformation of a once promising, if conservative, magazine journalist into a conspiracy-minded talking head.

For Haywood, a truly radical working-class politics in the United States also required a program of self-determination.

In her new book, Alyssa Battistoni explores how nature came to be treated as a supposedly cost-free supplement of capital accumulation.

From “The Crying Lot of 49” to his latest noirs, the American novelist has always proceeded along a track strangely parallel to our own.

From “The Crying Lot of 49” to his latest noirs, the American novelist has always proceeded along a track strangely parallel to our own.

Separating out the myths and facts of AI.

Through Nkrumah’s story, Howard French charts the history of African decolonization and the American civil rights movement.

A new book tells the story of the island-nation’s transformation into a central hub for technological development and manufacturing.

Each year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism. In additi...

Your Name Here dramatizes the tensions and possibilities of political art.

In his new book Slow Poison, the accomplished anthropologist revisits the Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni years.

What was it about Buckley that made him so attractive to liberals—and what was it about liberals that caused them to be attracted to conservative figures like Buckley in the first place?

Books & the Arts / June 9, 2025 Free From What? Quentin Skinner and the contested 
history of liberty What Is Freedom For? Quentin Skinner and the contested 
history of liberty. Samuel Moyn Share Co...

The radical life and work of the historian.

By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art form?

By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to transform postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art form?

In her new book, Callard makes the case that we should all live more philosophically but where does politics fit in?

Trump’s “Art of” trilogy may be full of willful exaggeration but the books also reveal how the 1980s and 90s formed his dog-eat-dog worldview.

Trump’s “Art of” trilogy may be full of willful exaggeration but the books also reveal how the 1980s and 90s formed his dog-eat-dog worldview.

If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.

In James Mangold's film A Complete Unknown, we get a cautious and reverent story of a musician who has always sought to transcend the limits imposed upon him.

If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.

If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.

From his first book to his landmark account of the politics of the pre-WWI labor movement, Montgomery explored how people’s experiences of work shaped their political horizons.

If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.

In his new volume of poetry, […], the poet, translator, and ER doctor explores Palestinians’ experiences of exile and displacement as well as the difficulties of healing amid the protracted and ongoin...

A film about survival, creativity, the hypocrisies of high art, The Brutalist tells a story about an architect who does not exploit and manipulate others to achieve his grand vision of the world but i...

From his first book to his landmark account of the politics of the pre-WWI labor movement, Montgomery explored how people’s experiences of work shaped their political horizons.

The squalid state of our present political institutions points to a failure of not just individuals but the system as a whole.

From his first book to his landmark account of the politics of the pre-WWI labor movement, Montgomery explored how people’s experiences of work shaped their political horizons.

The squalid state of our present political institutions points to a failure of not just individuals but the system as a whole.

The neighborhood reaction to the sudden, mysterious closure of a Manhattan bagel shop was intense: “No no no no no no no no no no no!!”

Americans are fleeing unaffordable blue states — and they’re taking the electoral college with them.

How do you tell the history of a global movement in all its hope and contradiction?