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  • The red and yellow cover, with white text, of All This Safety is Killing Us.

    Physician Jake Sonnenberg reviews All This Safety is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders, which collects writings that cast light on the flagrant injustices of for-profit healthcare and its complicity with police and the state—from cops in hospitals and sting operations on pregnant women to forced sterilization.

  • The cover of Fredric Jameson's Invention of a Present, showing a painted image of a workshop, a guillotine, bookshelves, models, and several figures.

    James Davis reviews Fredric Jameson’s last collection, Inventions of a Present, from Verso. What can the novel, as “time’s relief map,” still teach us about the contemporary fragmentation of meaning?

  • Two book covers, Make Your Own Job by Erik Baker and 99% Perspiration by Adam Chandler.

    Bradley Babendir compares two recent books that differ in their approach to critiquing the American pathology of entrepreneurialism and self-improvement: Erik Baker’s “Make Your Own Job” and Adam Chandler’s “99% Perspiration.”

  • Cover stating "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning / Peter Beinart"

    The new book from Peter Beinart, “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza,” is reviewed by Joshua Gutterman Tranen. “The truth that Beinart cannot face is that there is no prize to be won here, no silver lining to the thousands of Palestinians blown to pieces by Israeli-American bombs. There…

  • Jared Marcel Pollen reviews Benjamin Labatut’s latest work, “The Maniac”—a polyphonic account of the life of scientist John von Neumann, of genius and our awe and terror at minds beyond our comprehension.

  • Dan Sinykin, Big Fiction

    Emmerich Anklam reviews Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction—a timely book, writes Anklam, with an illuminating treatment of fiction’s dual status as culture and commodity.

  • Pink and blue gradient cover with title.

    As one of the left’s most infamously provocative calls, family abolition is often mischaracterized. M.E. O’Brien’s “Family Abolition,” writes Madeline Lane-McKinley, is a corrective and definitive contribution, incisively tracing abolition’s possibilities and opening a view onto utopian horizons.

  • Cover of Smoke and Ashes. A red poppy with title.

    Sohel Sarkar reviews Smoke and Ashes, by Amitav Ghosh. The historical opium trade not only echoes the current opioid crisis— enriched famous U.S. families and helped lay the foundations for global capitalism.

  • The cover of Marx in the Anthropocene, by Kohei Saito. Green abstraction on a dark grey background.

    Ryan Moore examines Kohei Saito’s environmentalist reading of Marx’s late notebooks in Marx in the Anthropocene—a major work in Marxist ecology and intervention in the degrowth debate.

  • Dylan Saba reviews Ghassan Kanafani’s “On Zionist Literature,” in which the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine founder deconstructs and critiques the literary myths and distortions that helped to craft the Zionist subject and deny Palestinian peoplehood.