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Ex-Urbia: An Interview with Matt Hern
Sam Russek interviews Matt Hern, author of Outside the Outside: The New Politics of Suburbs (Verso), on the sociopolitical dimensions, demographic shifts, and barriers to organizing inherent across the vast stretches of U.S. suburban sprawl.
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Review: Marx’s Literary Style, by Ludovico Silva
Sam Russek reviews Verso’s new English edition of Ludovico Silva’s classic Marx’s Literary Style (trans. Paco Brito Núñez). As Silva illustrated in 1971, Marx’s harmonies between concretion and literary flourishes are key to his work’s effect.
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“Post-Crisis, Still-Crisis:” New York City’s Violent Sweeps
Sam Russek interviewed Ramza, an encampment resident in New York City who has been subjected to repeated arrest and police harassment. Sweeps have worsened under Mayor Eric Adams’s punitive policies.
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