Category Archives: Lit Review

David McNally’s ‘Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History’ offers a necessary corrective to the New History of Capitalism (NHC) group by embracing Marxism’s revolutionary commitments, argues Julian Assele. — Read on cosmonautmag.com/2025/12/process-and-totality/

bird intelligence caracols and mouses mistakes alphabetization by emotions orange peels in tea leaves leaving your lover for a while coming back disastrously teaching someone how to talk to you buying bananas for everyone even that woman you dislike being extraordinarily patient spitting in the face of danger opening a new account fire breathing toothpasteContinue reading “ways of making love #2 (for BM)”

A conversation between Jasper Bernes and M. E. O’Brien on revolutionary speculation and the poetry of communism. Part 2 of 2. — Read on http://www.e-flux.com/notes/6783430/inquiry-on-the-future-of-revolution-part-2

A conversation between Jasper Bernes and M. E. O’Brien on revolutionary speculation and the poetry of communism. Part 1 of 2. — Read on http://www.e-flux.com/notes/6783429/inquiry-on-the-future-of-revolution-part-1

The left’s view of Palestine’s future often reduces to vague terms like “one-state solution” or “equal rights for all” but few address the tough questions they raise, especially: how can Palestinians live with those who carried out the Gaza genocide? — Read on mondoweiss.net/2025/12/liberation-is-not-integration-on-liberal-zionism-one-state-fantasies-and-what-palestinians-actually-want/

Full article: On the Coloniality of Solidarity: Iran, Imperialist Aggression, and the Western Left’s Blind Spot — Read on http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19436149.2025.2576342

What was happening when the student announced that they could not read out loud? Why were they still self-conscious in a room full of striving readers? At first, I think of how my co-teacher and I have worked to make this class respectful of the learners: students who are still striving to learn to readContinue reading “Read aloud”

Just who are these Yimby lobbyists behind the push to rezone Soho and Noho? — Read on fuelgrannie.com/2020/10/24/open-your-eyes-to-opennewyork/

The feeling of rage that arises from being called a purist in relation to Palestine isn’t a character flaw; rage is an appropriate response to being told that grown-up thinking requires us to meet genocide with a purely frivolous politics.  — Read on stevesalaita.com/palestine-and-the-politics-of-purity/