A Petrifying Spectacle Of Intolerance
Tamil writer Perumal Murugan’s powerful proses leave you stunned. Sadly, the non-Tamil literary world got to know him only when deeply frustrated by protests...
King Of The World
When Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene in the 1950s, he broke the mould. He changed the world of sports and went on...
The Final Solution
Final Solution by noted historian David Cesarani is an intelligent and thoughtprovoking short history of the Holocaust. Not only does David Cesarani draw together...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
In his new book ‘But What If We're Wrong?’', The New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their...
Mind Control, Online
From Facebook to Talking Points Memo to the New York Times, often what looks like fact-based journalism is not. It’s advertising. Not only are...
Too Wide A Gulf
Below is an excerpt of the introductory essay from The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor, edited by Andrew Ross (for Gulf Labor) (OR Books, 2015)....
Minority Report
They Know Everything About You is a groundbreaking exposé of how government agencies and tech corporations monitor virtually every aspect of our lives, and...
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
In Good Muslim, Bad Muslim the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to bear on a question many...
Big Brother: Alive and Kicking Hard
In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power—from the 1890s through the Cold War—and its...
Celebrating Discontents
This interview has been excerpted from “Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy,” a new book by social critic Noam Chomsky and...