Capitalism’s ‘Metabolic Rift’
Kohei Saito’s new book offers a compelling account of Marx’s development as an ecosocialist thinker.
Economics and Finance
The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized
How employees in the tech sector see the world, themselves, and the (im)possibility of change.
Disaster Capitalism in Higher Education
What happens to local economies when universities downsize or shutter?
Consider the Waffle
Are Waffle Houses or garden cities the future of food?
Prestige Fiction Is Dead
Evan Brier’s recent book conducts a depressing literary autopsy, complete with case studies.
Assaults and Batteries
Nicolas Niarchos digs up the hidden costs behind your rechargeables.
It’s Bad Out There
Park Chan-wook’s ‘No Other Choice’ takes an ax to the job-search grind.
The Artist Is Present (Online)
Sophie Bishop’s new book tracks the pressures artists face to conform their ‘brands’ to the demands of the algorithmic boss.
A Fiction of Global Terror
Timothy Rideout’s new book shows how precarity among the middle and working classes powers the fears at the heart of 21st-century gothic literature.
An Emergency Born of Prosperity
Zoe Adams considers “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” by Brian Goldstone.
Making a Killing
Mikkel Krause Frantzen discusses the future of the financial thriller in an era of cryptocurrencies and climate crisis.
Party Lines and Bottom Lines
Martin Laflamme traces the history and future of globalization through three recent books on China’s techno-nationalism.
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