What Went Wrong With Identity Politics?
In a new book, Asad Haider makes the case for coalition-building and a return to universalist radical movements.
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War in the Language of Hope
Writing in Esperanto, Spomenka Štimec offers a harrowing account of war in luscious detail.
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The American Jewish Army that Never Was
A new work chronicles the attempts by Zionist leaders to raise an American Jewish army to fight Hitler.
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There Will Be Blood: Chaim Soutine at the Jewish Museum
"His paintings reflect the route from Louvre to butcher shop to studio, a private map of an emigre who belonged to no national movement and who created his own style."
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Indonesia’s Unmourned Communists
A new work addresses the long-neglected mass politicide of communists in Indonesia.
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Our Hilarious Overlords
What's so funny about backstabbing, brutality and mass murder? Quite a lot.
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A Nation Like All Others: Gershom Scholem and the Paradox of Zionism
How one people’s “independence” became another’s catastrophe.
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The Kremlin Ball
Ex-fascist diplomat Curzio Malaparte's masterpiece blends the real, the improbable, and the impossible in Soviet Russia.
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Revolutionary Bandits
A new history of the revolutionary criminals who rejected any possibility of revolution coming from the degraded masses—and turned their revolt into an individualistic one.
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