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  • Cover of Mitchell Abidor's "Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary," showing Serge standing in black and white.

    Andrew Holter interviews Mitchell Abidor on Abidor’s new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, out from Pluto Press. “It seems like we in the English-speaking world, at least, have misunderstood some pretty important things about him”—including what Abidor argues was his late-life turn to reactionary anti-communism.

  • Dialogue with the revolutionary philosopher Divya Dwivedi is never a neutral interaction. As we spoke with Dwivedi, she was facing death threats on social media platforms, including of threats of decapitation and calls for funding assassins. Concurrently, two prominent English-language Indian media outlets, India Today and News18, published articles depicting…

  • The cover of Corrales's poetry book, ESTA BOCA ES MIA, depicting a street scene with title in red.

    Mallika Singh interviews poet and organizer Lupita Limón Corrales, whose new collection, ESTA BOCA ES MÍA, has now been published by nueoi press. Corrales’s poems, Singh writes, are “a testament to the dissolution of self, to the collective voice.”

  • Writer and translator Alex Tan speaks to renowned Gazan poet Nasser Rabah on his new collection, Gaza: The Poem Said its Piece, selected and translated by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, and Khaled Al Hilli.

  • Andreas Malm is interviewed by Bernardo Jurema and Elias König —about his recent book “Overshoot” (co-authored with Wim Carton), the “unique” case of Colombia, Freudo-Marxism, his forthcoming book “The Long Heat,” and more.

  • Neda Tehrani interviews philosopher Frédéric Gros about his new book A Philosophy of Shame (Verso Books) and the uses and misuses of this “revolutionary emotion.”

  • A picture of Santa Monica's beach at dusk.

    Samuel McIlhagga traveled to Los Angeles to interview L.A. figures influenced by Mike Davis and to seek out geographical touchstones from Davis’s seminal title City of Quartz—revisiting the same streets, buildings, and social maladies that the writer memorably documented. Part II comprises an interview with novelist Matthew Specktor.

  • A photo of Griffith Observatory with downtown Los Angeles in the background at sunset.

    Samuel McIlhagga traveled to Los Angeles to interview L.A. figures influenced by Mike Davis and to seek out geographical touchstones from Davis’s seminal title City of Quartz—revisiting the same streets, buildings, and social maladies that the writer memorably documented. Part I comprises interviews with historian Peter Chesney.

  • 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.

  • Hugo de Camps Mora interviews Dominique Routhier on his new book “With and Against,” the legacy of the Situationist International, and the importance of political aesthetics.