Random House 343 pp. $5.95. Truman Capote’s meticulous story of a quadruple murder on the Kansas plain, its instant success, and some of the critical reactions to it raise a number of ...

Wars of position that pit race against class are tired.

Five poems by the late American writer and activist Grace Paley.

Matt and Sam are joined by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes to discuss his new book The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource. We’re all anxious, and none of us can pay attention.

Destructive displays of technological prowess in Lebanon serve to distract the Israeli public from the military’s failure to achieve its long-stated war aims. Yet Israel will not bring about regional ...

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ Spring 2024 Art by Tabitha Arnold While we are paying a lot of attention to U.S. conservatives this election year, it is also an auspicious time to publish a ...

In their new book, Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World, Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce argue that progressives need a strategy upgrade. As they explain, “We wrote this book ...

What did you eat today? Perhaps it was an egg-and-cheese sandwich, followed by pizza, then ramen for dinner. Or maybe you had a breakfast burrito, grabbed to-go sushi for lunch, and noshed on a burger ...

In the annual mailbag episode, Matt and Sam answer listener questions about topics ranging from the influence of post-liberal intellectuals on the right to their favorite Willie Nelson albums. Once a ...

This new monthly column, Apocalypse Chow, is about radically rethinking our understanding of food. While we can’t live without food and drink, cuisine is not merely a physical product. It is foremost ...

Israel’s political and social life is still reeling from the impact of two seemingly contradictory developments unforeseen by even the most knowledgeable pundits: first, the end of 30 years of Labor’s ...

Eve Livingston’s new book, Make Bosses Pay, aims to get young people connected to unions and to push unions to engage more with the working class as it is today: diverse, precarious, and perhaps on ...