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2+ week, 2+ day ago   (181+ words) How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention by John Washington. Haymarket Books, 2026. 272 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org At a moment when every branch of the federal government has been captured by authoritarian forces, the movement…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (123+ words) Moving Toward Freedom: The Political Education of Enslaved Americans by Susan Eva O’Donovan. Penguin Press, 2026. 384 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org Joshua D. Rothman is a professor of history at the University of Alabama. He is the author, most recently, of…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (208+ words) The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader by Melissa Murray. 37 Ink, 2026. 352 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org The part of the Constitution that Americans probably know best, the Preamble, begins: As Murray methodically analyzes each provision of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (366+ words) Lipstick by Eileen G’Sell. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. 200 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe by Sophie Lewis. Haymarket Books, 2026. 346 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org This ugly, dangerous spectacle was topped off by…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (89+ words) Madeline Ullrich explores the contradictions of “children’s television” in the Max/ID series “Quiet on Set” and Jane Schoenbrun’s film “I Saw the TV Glow.” Madeline UllrichAug 25, 2024 Kartik Nair explores the dynamics of the Scream franchise through the lens of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (86+ words) Featured image: Sophie Calle and Greg Shephard, Still from Double Blind/No Sex Last Night, 1996. Image has been cropped. Jessica Simmons-Reid is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Jessica Simmons-Reid visits Noah Davis’s posthumous survey at the Hammer…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (343+ words) Howard ends his essay with an allusion to “the heart of darkness” of contemporary publishing, a flourish he later regretted. But despite all warnings and regrets, Cosmodemonic Publishing marched on, replacing “literary values and sound business practices” with “feverish competitiveness…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (604+ words) FILM AND TELEVISION writers recently ratified a new deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that offers meaningful protections; despite this achievement, however, their professional survival remains at stake. The pending merger of two historical studios is…...