Must Reads

Politics

The Future of American Labor

Organized labor was once the backbone of American democracy. A new book argues that the future of collective bargaining requires adaptation to new economies.
By Joseph A. McCartin
October 28, 2019
Religion

Rawls & Theodicy

Did liberalism originate in a kind of theodicy? And is there any reason to suppose that egalitarian liberalism is or has to be theological? Not necessarily.
By Samuel Moyn
October 30, 2019
Culture

Unmagical Realism

Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez wanted to be known more for his journalistic prose than his novels. A new collection reveals the flaws of that desire.
By Catherine Addington
October 31, 2019
Books

Self-Reflection

Recent nonfiction increasingly takes ego as starting point. Jia Tolentino and Leslie Jamison use self-aware essays to examine popular culture and female experience.
By Katherine Lucky
October 9, 2019
Books

Saying the Unsayable

Poet and novelist Fanny Howe is an experimental writer’s experimental writer, the author of dozens of books, one who remains publicly, committedly Catholic.
By Anthony Domestico
September 27, 2019
Collections

Injustice at the Border

The suffering of migrants and refugees on the border cannot be forgotten. Nor can the Trump administration’s deliberate cruelty toward them.
By The Editors
October 28, 2019
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