Exploring the female voice, patriarchy, sound, desire, and the limits of self-control through Anne Carson and Krzysztof Kieślowski

by Giuliano Fleri. For 70 years, Italy has promised a bridge across the Messina Strait. Today, the project remains unfinished.

Susan Simensky Bietela describes her experiences creating art for social justice and her work with the World War 3 Illustrated collective.

Policy researcher Ned Wontner recounts the days leading up to the 2024 uprising in Bangladesh that ousted Sheikh Hasina.

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Sean Jacobs's new book applies a decolonial framework to climate change, global trade, and yes, academia.

A decade and a half after that first night at Zuccotti Park, Nara Roberta Silva explores how the movement transformed strategy on the Left.

Samuel Stein talks public-private housing, Mamdani, and the relative unimportance of hope in his new book, A Right to Housing?

Jeff Dolven explores the function, history, and relative importance of a workhorse of speech: the sentence.

On the tantalizing gender freedom promised by skateboarding, Pee-wee Herman, and the Jackass films.

Emma Robertson reviews The Price of Mercy, a book by Emily Galvin Almanza that reflects on the US prison system and its possible futures.

President Donald J. Trump at the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas (2026) | Official White House Photo by Molly Riley...Read More

Austin Tannenbaum interviews author A. J. A. Woods about their new book, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy, and critical theory in culture wars.

From The Invention of Painting (ca. 1808) | Louis Ducis / Public Domain Every style is a means of insisting...Read More

Truth, interpretation, and exactitude are entangled with the messy realities of family in Ben Lerner's latest novel.

Katie Pruden interviews author Lana Lin about reimagining Gertrude Stein’s form in The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam (Dorothy Project, 2026)

Nolan Yong reviews Nick Srnicek's Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI and discusses the fusion of big tech with state interests.

Lydia Zhang reviews Şeyda Kurt’s, Hate: The Uses of a Powerful Emotion (Verso, 2025), newly translated from German to English.

Rachel Potter interviews Rosa Campbell about her scholarly biography Shere Hite, The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared

Carly Thomsen discusses reproductive justice from a queer perspective and calls for social transformation through collective care.

This week, Trump released his 2021 budget. It contains $800 billion worth of cuts in Medicaid over the next decade....Read More

Yazan Ashqar reviews New Humans: Memories of the Future, which inaugurated the New Museum’s recent reopening in late March 2026.

Colette Estelle reviews Charlotte Strange’s Strange Biology

Can “centrism” be “radical?” And how can “radicalism” be “centrist"? Jeffrey C. Isaac reflects on Jeffrey Goldfarb’s new book.

In an interview with Madeline Trice, scholar Anna Terwiel discusses her hopes for necessities like air conditioning inside the prison system.

Tamir Bell, Paul Draus, and Anna Müller visit a reconciliation village and look at Rwanda as an example of prison reform

C-SPAN’s Presidential Historians Survey is widely cited in evaluating presidential performance. Yet the survey is less neutral than it seems.

The Friends of Attention are sounding the alarm on our screen addition. So what's their alternative? Rachel Potter reviews ATTENSITY!

Gil Bittner argues that The New School's Orozco murals, like other university collection artworks, are educational resources, not fungible assets.

Institutions remain. Elections take place. Speeches are delivered. Flags are raised. Unfortunately, this is not democracy but its simulacrum, writes Elzbieta Matynia.

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What matters in the current conjuncture is not whether a regime or a movement labels itself “conservative” or “radical,” liberal or progressive, writes James Miller.

If you want to learn more about Canada’s stance on immigration today, look to Roxham Road, writes Rachel McKenzie.

Dominick DeJoy discusses how the Artist Status in Belgium only makes the underlying problems of growing casualization of cultural labor temporarily manageable.

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Xavier Moyssén Álvarez discusses dynamic symmetry in the works of José Clemente Orozco

Austin Tannenbaum reviews Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics: "Participating in civic society is a vital part of our well-being."

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, in their conversation with L. Zhang, discuss the political-economic model they call "Muskism."

Colette Estelle interviews Giada Scodellaro about Ruins, Child (New Directions, 2026), a hybrid novel on proximity, grief, and community.

Can “centrism” be “radical?” And how can “radicalism” be “centrist"? Jeffrey C. Isaac reflects on Jeffrey Goldfarb’s new book.

Irit Dekel reflects on the subtitle of Jeffrey Goldfarb’s new book: "Confronting the Retreat of Democracy From the Radical Center."

Natasha Lennard and Adam Tooze discuss the current energy crisis, its long history, and the global forces shaping the future of energy.

Daniel DiMassa draws parallels between Secretary of State Marco Rubio's address to Europe and Ulysses' speech to his men in Dante's inferno

In the Orozco room at The New School, Gandhi, Naidu, Lenin, Stalin, and Felipe Carrillo Puerto are in permanent dialogue.

Megan Milks speaks with Cleo Levin about how whiteness, gender, and the fascinating fluidity of milk feature in their latest book, Mega Milk.

Katie Pruden reviews Grand Rapids, Natasha Stagg’s newest novel on teenagehood in Michigan and an "exercise in remembrance without nostalgia."

Rida Chaudhry speaks with Areeb Zuaiter about her documentary Yalla Parkour

Chris Holdaway reflects on his translation of Léon-Paul Fargue’s writings about French surrealist Marie Monnie, highlighting her avant garde practices.

In The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World, author Vicky Osterweil discusses Walt’s frothing anti-communism.

Madeleine Adams reviews Whitney E. Laemmli’s new study, Making Movement Modern, and its dizzying story of Labanotation, a movement visualization system that promised the key to self-understanding.