
The Safe Harbor
The longshoreman labor leader Harry Bridges may no longer be widely known, but his philosophy of inclusive, democratic unionism imbues much of today’s most ambitious organizing campaigns.
April 20, 2023 issue
A Formative Loss
In her novel The Furrows, Namwali Serpell’s pyrotechnics convey the madness, repetition, disruption, and shock of grief.
April 20, 2023 issue
300 Years of ‘Too Big to Jail’
In Impunity and Capitalism, Trevor Jackson shows how, between about 1690 and 1830, financial crises stopped being crimes and were treated as everyone’s fault and no one’s.
April 20, 2023 issue
Refill the Swamp!
Two recent books show that the concept of ecological restoration is a fuzzy one: even practitioners rarely agree on what is being restored, or to what end.
April 20, 2023 issue
Joe Brainard’s Communal Intimacy
While Brainard’s recurring subject was himself, he somehow kept himself at a distance, an object in a world of other bodies.
April 20, 2023 issue
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