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July 2, 2020
George Blaustein
Searching for Consolation in Max Weber’s Work Ethic
The German sociologist’s famous treatise on capitalism takes on new meaning amid a job-destroying pandemic.
July 1, 2020
Jo Livingstone
A Satire That Demolishes the Influencer Industry
Leigh Stein’s novel “Self Care” drowns wellness Instagrammers in their own moon juice.
June 29, 2020
Laura Stark
The Hidden Racism of Vaccine Testing
In the dangerous and secretive world of Phase I clinical trials, black men bear the greatest risks.
June 25, 2020
Patrick Iber
John Bolton’s Accidentally Unflattering Self-Portrait
“The Room Where It Happened” is a powerful indictment of Trump—and of its author.
June 19, 2020
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
The Government Can Afford Anything It Wants
The idea that programs must be funded by tax dollars is a myth. Stephanie Kelton’s new book explains how money really works.
June 17, 2020
Jacob Silverman
Letting Jeffrey Epstein’s Pals Off the Hook
A new documentary and a new book about the disgraced pedophile only gesture at the upper-crust social milieu that tolerated his crimes.
June 16, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Asterix Comes to America
The raucous francophone comic book series has been cleaned up for a new audience. Can it survive the edit?
June 12, 2020
Alex Shephard
Book Publishing’s Next Battle: Conservative Authors
The industry is facing demands to live up to its stated values. That might mean ditching writers like Donald Trump Jr.
June 10, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Who Killed Olof Palme?
Thirty-four years after the prime minister was murdered, Sweden has identified his assassin. But the case is by no means concluded.
June 10, 2020
Jennifer Wilson
The Down Days
Is an Eerily Prescient Pandemic Novel
When Ilze Hugo started writing about an outbreak, she thought she was imagining a far-fetched dystopia.
June 5, 2020
Jo Livingstone
The Radically Inclusive Music of Ornette Coleman
A new book about the free jazz pioneer illuminates the moral and political significance of the postwar avant-garde.
June 5, 2020
Andre Pagliarini
Where America Developed a Taste for State Violence
From Indonesia to Brazil, the United States fostered a global network of brutal repression in the name of anti-communism.
June 1, 2020
Jake Bittle
The Right’s Reign on the Air Waves
How talk radio established the power of the modern Republican Party
May 29, 2020
David Klion
David Frum’s Hold Over the Center
The Never Trumpers styled themselves as critics of the GOP. Instead, they built up power over liberals.
May 25, 2020
Ryu Spaeth
Sounding It Out
Teaching my daughter to read in self-isolation
May 22, 2020
Alexander Zaitchik
Jonathan Schell’s Warning From the Brink
Fears of the nuclear threat may have subsided with the end of the Cold War, but the danger did not.
May 19, 2020
Laura Marsh
The Flawed Fantasy of a Different Hillary Clinton
Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel “Rodham” imagines an alternative world in which Hillary never marries Bill.
May 18, 2020
Ryu Spaeth
The Unsuitable Passions of J.M. Coetzee
The Jesus trilogy is an ambitious, unearthly reckoning with desire and disaster.
May 15, 2020
Jo Livingstone
A Beach Read With Teeth
In “All Adults Here,” Emma Straub skewers small-town bourgeois society.
May 11, 2020
Kyle Chayka
The Art of Staying Home
Kate Zambreno’s novel “Drifts” brilliantly evokes a hazy state of self-isolation.
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