• Online Features
    • Critique & Essays
    • News Analysis
    • Poetry
    • Reviews
    • Interviews
    • Fiction
  • Store
    • Shop
    • Cart
    • Checkout
  • Support Us
  • Submissions
  • About Us
Start typing and press
Enter to search
Skip to content
Protean Magazine

Protean Magazine

An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.

open search form close search form
  • Online Features
    • Critique & Essays
    • News Analysis
    • Poetry
    • Reviews
    • Interviews
    • Fiction
  • Store
    • Shop
    • Cart
    • Checkout
  • Support Us
  • Submissions
  • About Us

All articles filed in Reviews

The cover of Malcolm Harris's Palo Alto.

The “Here” of Magical Thinking: Palo Alto, by Malcolm Harris

By: Protean Magazine March 1, 2023March 1, 2023
Reviews

David Helps reviews Palo Alto, Malcolm Harris’s new critical history of Silicon Valley’s blend of California idealism and exploitation. The town has come to signify grotesque new tech wealth accumulated in the guise of free-market liberation.

Read More
Reviews
Cover of Road to Nowhere.

Transit Democracy: Paris Marx’s Road to Nowhere

By: Protean Magazine June 29, 2022June 30, 2022
Reviews

Matthew J. Seidel reviews Road to Nowhere, the new book from Paris Marx on fantastical and farcical big-tech transit schemes and how they have substituted for the public good.

Read More
Reviews
Town of Babylon cover.

Nowhere is a Place: Alejandro Varela’s The Town of Babylon

By: Protean Magazine May 3, 2022May 26, 2022
Reviews

Marcos Gonsalez reviews Alejandro Varela’s debut novel The Town of Babylon. Andrés, the novel’s gay Colombian-American protagonist, returns to suburbia and muses on identity, race, and the prejudice and hierarchy that constitutes America.

Read More
Reviews
The cover of Haiven's Palm Oil.

Sacrifice Networks: A Review of Max Haiven’s Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire

By: Protean Magazine April 28, 2022May 13, 2022
Reviews

Alex Skopic reviews Max Haiven’s Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire, out now from Pluto Press. The grotesque history of this ubiquitous commodity offers a lens onto the environmental and human costs of imperialism and industry.

Read More
Reviews
The cover of Cynthia Cruz's The Melancholia of Class.

Belonging Nowhere: Cynthia Cruz’s The Melancholia of Class

By: Protean Magazine April 20, 2022April 20, 2022
Reviews

Alexander Billet reviews Cynthia Cruz’s The Melancholia of Class, a work of memoir and cultural criticism that examines the inflections of class, assimilation, and loss on independent art.

Read More
Reviews

Review: Olga Ravn’s The Employees

By: Protean Magazine February 10, 2022April 27, 2022
Reviews

Adam Fales reviews Olga Ravn’s The Employees: a slyly oblique sci-fi novel that transposes the alienation of the capitalist workplace onto a 22nd-century commercial starship.

Read More
Reviews

Review: Exterminate All the Brutes and How To Become a Tyrant

By: Protean Magazine December 15, 2021
Reviews

Two docu-series, “Exterminate All the Brutes” and “How to Become a Tyrant,” exemplify a “poetic” materialism and stale liberal idealism, respectively. Ilan Benattar holds them both up to the light.

Read More
Reviews

Review: Bini Adamczak’s Yesterday’s Tomorrow

By: Protean Magazine November 24, 2021November 28, 2021
Reviews

Clinton Williamson reviews Bini Adamczak’s Yesterday’s Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future, from MIT Press.

Read More
Reviews

Laboratories of Empire

By: Protean Magazine October 26, 2021October 26, 2021
Reviews

Will Meyer, with an eye to Stuart Schrader’s Badges Without Borders and Todd Miller’s Empire of Borders, examines how U.S. policing and repressive tactics are exported to and tested in client states, and how they inevitably return home.

Read More
Reviews

Towards Neo-Statism: Paolo Gerbaudo’s The Great Recoil

By: Protean Magazine October 13, 2021April 27, 2022
Reviews

Samuel McIlhagga reviews Paolo Gerbaudo’s The Great Recoil, out from Verso Books. Gerbaudo’s book posits a shift to protective statism in response to amassing crises.

Read More
Reviews

Posts navigation

Older posts

Follow Us

PRINT EDITIONS

  • Protean Magazine Vol I, Issue III: Breathing Room $13.99
  • Protean Magazine Vol I, Issue III: Breathing Room (PDF) $6.99
  • Protean Magazine Vol I, Issue I: Pattern Machines (PDF) $6.99

Trending Posts

  • Motivated Reasoning: Emily Oster’s COVID Narratives and the Attack on Public Education
    March 22, 2022
  • Singal and the Noise
    April 22, 2022
  • The housing development is demolished.
    Pruitt-Igoe: A Black Community Under the “Atomic Cloud”
    November 28, 2022

 

Loading Comments...