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  • A photo of Griffith Observatory with downtown Los Angeles in the background at sunset.
    Finding Mike Davis in L.A., Part I: On the Road with Peter Chesney

    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.

  • 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.

  • Repoliticizing Aesthetics: A Conversation with Dominique Routhier

    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.

  • The cover of Vincent Bevins' If We Burn: Samuel McIlhagga met up with Vincent Bevins for a conversation on his new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution.
    Uprising and Counter-Attack: Vincent Bevins on If We Burn

    Samuel McIlhagga spoke with Vincent Bevins on his new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution—on resurgent global protest and its receding tide, co-option and counter-revolution, and more.

  • The cover of Class War: A Literary History by Mark Steven.
    Class War: A Conversation with Mark Steven

    Protean Magazine poetry editor Dominick Knowles in conversation with Mark Steven—on Steven’s latest book, Class War: A Literary History (Verso), and on the complex entanglement of literature and resistance.

  • Shaj Mohan
    Let The World Speak: An Interview with Shaj Mohan

    Anthony Ballas and Kamran Baradaran interview Indian philosopher Shaj Mohan about Palestine, India’s role in the war on Gaza, constructing a philosophy against and apart from that of “rich white countries,” and more.

  • Late Fascism: An Interview with Alberto Toscano, Part 2

    This is the second part of a two part interview with Italian philosopher Alberto Toscano about his new book, Late Fascism, in which he discusses, among other things, fascism’s “religion of death,” the superstructural terrain of the fight against fascism, the new temporality of the climate crisis, and whether fascism’s…

  • Late Fascism: An Interview with Alberto Toscano, Part 1

    Last month, Jake Romm spoke with Alberto Toscano about his new book Late Fascism. Here’s Part 1 of the interview, covering the impetus behind the book, petit-bourgeois fascism, & the idea of petty-sovereignty & more. Part 2 coming soon.

  • Moyn cover.
    Cold War Liberalism: An Interview with Samuel Moyn

    How did liberalism become warped from utopian, mass-democratic values into paranoid, defensive neoliberalism? Samuel McIlhagga interviews Samuel Moyn on his new book, which answers: the Cold War.

  • A frame from Adam Curtis's Trauma Zone showing a Russian soldier.
    Imagine a New Collectivism: An Interview with Adam Curtis

    Samuel McIlhagga sat down with filmmaker Adam Curtis for a discussion of his new series, “TraumaZone, 1985-1999″—and had a wide-ranging conversation about his work, truth, lies, and journalism, dueling Ends of History, and more.