Book Review
Resistance, the unverifiable, and the horse in Ali Smith’s ‘Gliff’
June 16, 2026Smith argues that defiance is a persistent, improvised salving: tending wounds, remembering the erased, and walking north toward the unverifiable.
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The ‘cultural Marxism’ myth was always meant to prop up capitalism
June 12, 2026New book shows how the right-wing conspiracy around “cultural Marxism” is ultimately a reactionary effort to justify attacks against gender, race, and labor rights.
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Ernest Poole’s ‘The Harbor’: A working-class classic that still matters
May 14, 2026"The Harbor" does for the ship and dock workers of New York what Upton Sinclair’s "The Jungle" did for the immigrants working in the meatpacking industry in Chicago.
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Gavin Newsom’s autobiographical ‘Young Man in a Hurry’: More and less
May 12, 2026If you love reading political memoirs, this is that, but it's not exactly a bold statement of the kind of America Newsom would like to usher in once moving into the White House.
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‘Gathering Storm: A Story of the Black Belt’ book review
April 20, 2026Myra Page’s classic proletarian novel represents the complex, difficult unevenness between stated values and their partial expression through action.
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