Faulkner the Anti-Fascist
There are clear anti-fascist themes in Faulkner's work, long before awareness of and opposition to fascism became widespread in the United States. ...
books Tag
Book Review | Nuance in the Fight between Good and Evil
1939: A People’s History By Frederick Taylor W. W. Norton & Company; 448 pp; $30 [divider] Library shelves are full of books whose titles celebrate, commemorate or contemplate a single momentous year: 1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England; 1774: The Long Year of Revolution; 1776; 1917;...
I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: An Interview with Esther Safran Foer
I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir By Esther Safran Foer Tim Duggan Book $27.00, 226 pp. [divider] Though her parents didn’t talk about it, Esther Safran Foer knew she had lost family members, even close relatives, in the Holocaust—she just didn’t know how close. “My...
Opinion Interview | Now is the Time to Fix The Climate
Zero Hour, the anti-climate-change group that Jamie S. Margolin founded two years ago when she was 16, calls itself “a movement of unstoppable youth.”...
Opinion Interview | Why Evangelicals Worship Trump
What do President Donald Trump and the religious right see in each other?...
Interview: Geraldine Brooks on Lessons From the ‘Plague Village’
"Any sacrifice to save human life is, by definition, vital."...
Book Review | ‘We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders’
In his foreword to Linda Sarsour’s memoir of political activism, Harry Belafonte remarks, “It wasn’t that long ago that we lost Martin and Malcom and Bobby.” He is comparing the vilification of Sarsour, the hijab-wearing, Brooklyn-born Palestinian-American, for her anti-Israeli politics to the murderous racist...
The Purple Gang: Kosher Kings of Detroit
The Purple Gang was the only Jewish gang to ever dominate the underworld in a major American city. But judging by their obscurity in the decades following their demise, you would hardly know it. A new book chronicles the gang’s rise, fall, and subsequent vanishing...
What to Read: A Sampling of the Ways the World Ends
Something about watching civilization and its institutions collapse makes me nostalgic for the dystopian novels of my childhood....