Portside

Camila Valle interviews Selma James about feminism, anti-imperialism, and a lifetime of international Marxist organizing.

A new book invites us to revisit the world and ideas of one of our great writers, who also served, during the 20th Century, as a one of our society's outstanding voices of conscience and tribunes for justice.

What will writers do when the outrage is over? Will they go back to writing about flowers and moons?

Ruth Ben-Ghiat delivers a superb examination of how close the US came to fascism – and how it has propped it up before.

The recent publication of Isabel Wilkerson’s widely acclaimed Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents returns to caste to explain U.S. racial hierarchy when wealth polarization, racial strife, and white supremacist revanchism are again on the rise.

Here is a history of fascism in Europe that may be helpful as we consider this troubled, and troubling, moment.

Under the slick suits and high tension shootouts, America’s favorite thrillers are hiding something.

A fascinating and timely history of how science developed via the achievement of pursuing only observation and experiment (not politics).

The preeminent photographic record of the period excluded people of color from the nation’s self-image. This collective portrait contributed to the misbegotten idea, still current, that the soul of America, the real American type, is rural and white

Here is a fine tribute to di Prima, who died October 25. She was 86 years old. She was an outstanding figure in mid-to-late 20th Century rebel culture in the United States and was one of that culture's most important poets.