Nation contributing editor Mike Davis, a brilliant radical reporter with a novelist’s eye and a historian’s memory, died this week at the age of 76. Fellow contributing editor Jon Wiener offers a remembrance of his friend and coauthor here, while contributor Micah Uetricht grapples with Davis’s forecast for the left here.

For more from the great social critic and political activist, best known for works including City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Planet of Slums, and Prisoners of the American Dream, you can find Mike Davis’s full body of writing for The Nation here. ⁣