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Reviewer Tetler assesses Harvey's commentary on Marx's famous and influential early work.

“People who truly believe in justice and equality, and peace and socialism, should not actually really care whether their contributions are individually noted,” Angela Davis asserted at a tribute to her friend and mentor, Charlene Mitchell, in 2009.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Abolition Geography is written to be used.

A radical communion of painting and writing, Art on the Frontline reckons with the leftist political potential of Black visual and expressive culture.

Sarah Bakewell’s sweeping new survey of the philosophical tradition, “Humanly Possible,” says that putting your faith in human behavior means confronting complacency and nihilism — but it can be worth it.

In this new book, writes reviewer Clemens, author Walzer "muses on the evolution of the word liberal, from indicating a fixed ideology to signifying a ‘universal’ set of values that can be attached to a diverse array of political projects."

Poet Amanda Gorman, 25, vows to fight back after single complaint, which wrongly ascribed The Hill We Climb to Oprah Winfrey, prompts removal.

Henry Threadgill’s memoir unfolds from his maddening wartime experience to his boundary-pushing musical career.

Chi Boy is part memoir, part social history, part eulogy for his ancestors, and part tribute to men whose literary output continues to inspire him.

This book argues that the United States must move beyond its current minimalist approach to fighting poverty and adopt a set of policies aimed at the "structural vulnerabilities" in our society that keep people poor.