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“[A]s my mom and I both know she failed to love me right, we also both know she always did love me,” writes Sung Yim in their new memoir, What About the Rest of Your Life. “That’s why love can be both arbitrary and dangerous.” That line contains Yim’s central throughline: the way loving an […]
Discussed: Jesmyn Ward, Hillary Rodham Clinton, fascist creeps, and prog rock.
Mark Bray on anti-Nazi punks, Italian feminist witches, and how to defeat an ideology of hatred.
Why do Americans love bullshit? The new book Bunk gets to the bottom of it.
It’s called “Cat Person,” but it begins with a flirtation over Red Vines, and there are no cats in it. Getty Images Over the weekend, I noticed something unusual on my timeline: people who are usually tweeting about Trump or TV or homelessness or drinking or video games or the contents of their refrigerator were […]
Why you should care about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s second act.
Shane Burley’s prescription for fascism: a mass movement rooted in antifa solidarity, not separatism.
Kenneth Womack’s new book on George Martin is the first of two volumes (the second comes out next year), and it seems to be the first biography of the Beatles producer, which is kind of surprising. That alone makes Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Early Years 1926-1966 a significant work […]
That’s when something finally happens in Jennifer Egan’s new book.
MALIN FEZEHAI Reza Aslan isn’t your typical religion scholar. The Iranian American author, professor, and commentator once brilliantly humiliated a Fox News host who had questioned what a Muslim would have to offer by writing a book about Jesus—ignoring Aslan’s status as a widely respected religious academic who has four degrees in the field. That […]
The acclaimed scholar’s new book offers a more inclusive approach to the divine.
Danez Smith, Morgan Parker, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Béalleka at the Winningstad Theatre MB At this year’s festival, some of Wordstock’s bugs still seemed yet to be squashed: I’ve argued in the past that a crowded book festival is a good problem to have, but increasingly it just seems like a problem at Wordstock. This […]
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