• Perry Anderson on World War I and the present international crisis, in conversation with Tony Wood

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    Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity, and The New Old World. He taught History at UCLA for thirty years and is on the editorial board of New Left Review. Tony Wood is Assistant Professor of […]

  • Tony Tulathimutte on gender and comedy in fiction, in conversation with Hermione Hoby

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    Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection, which was longlisted for the National Book Award. He’s received a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award, and has written for The Paris Review, N+1, The New York Times, The Nation, and others. He also runs CRIT, a writing class in Brooklyn. Hermione Hoby is the author of the novels […]

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  • Alyssa Battistoni on capitalism and the politics of nature, in conversation with Benjamin Kunkel

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    Alyssa Battistoni is a professor of political science at Barnard College. She is the author of Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (Princeton UP 2025) and co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso 2019). She works and teaches on climate and environmental politics, capitalism, Marxism, feminism, and other topics in modern social […]

  • Paul Reitter on translating Marx’s Capital, in conversation with Arne Höcker

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    Paul Reitter is Professor in German Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Bambi’s Jewish Roots and Other Essays on German-Jewish Culture (Bloomsbury, 2015), On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred (Princeton, 2012), and The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe (Chicago, 2008). He collaborated with Jonathan Franzen and Daniel Kehlmann on The Kraus […]

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  • Jeff Sharlet on our slow civil war, in conversation with Nathan Schneider

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    Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times bestselling author or editor of eight books. His latest is The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War (2023), a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction, one of The New York Times 100 Books of the Year, and a New Republic book of the year. In 2020, he published This Brilliant Darkness: A Book […]