Christopher Newfield’s 2023 MLA Presidential address, “Criticism After This Crisis: Toward a National Strategy for Literary and Cultural Study,” was published in Representations 164 (Fall 2023). As the 2024 MLA conference commences, …
Read More >Following her experimental translations of Euripides in Grief Lessons (2006), Anne Carson’s recent dialogue with Euripides is amongst her boldest. The Trojan Women (2021), a graphic ‘comics poem’, and H of H Playbook (2021), an ‘explosion …
Read More >Busting the Bankers’ Club is an eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform. Bankers brought the global …
Read More >By Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, author of Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Hajari between Europe and North Africa When I first encountered the fascinating Moroccan polymath Ahmad ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî (c. 1569 – …
Read More >By Rebecca Sharpless, author of Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air My new book Shackled recounts the harrowing real-life experiences of 92 individuals abused during a failed deportation flight to Somalia. …
Read More >By Jennifer Hendricks, author of Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and abolished the right to abortion, …
Read More >By Richard Holden, author Money in the Twenty-First Century: Cheap, Mobile, and Digital In my new book Money in the Twenty-First Century, I put money in historical context to explain why it …
Read More >By Katherine Newman and Elisabeth Jacobs, co-authors of Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor For nearly half a century, scholars and policymakers alike have pointed to the …
Read More >By Naomi Weiss, author of Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama The cover of Seeing Theater, thoughtfully designed by my late brother-in-law and artist David Palacios, offers a succinct visual …
Read More >By Neil Lee, author of Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy I grew up in Oxford, England, sometimes called the City of Dreaming Spires and …
Read More >
