E. Tammy Kim
The Safe Harbor

The longshoreman labor leader Harry Bridges may no longer be widely known, but his philosophy of inclusive, democratic unionism imbues much of today’s most ambitious organizing campaigns.

Miranda Seymour
Consider the Publisher

Behind Mary Wollstonecraft was a courageous publisher and his network of eighteenth-century London’s most radical minds.

Ruth Margalit
Writing the Nakba in Hebrew

The novel Arabesques, written in Hebrew by the Palestinian Anton Shammas, is a lament for the catastrophe of 1948 and a paean to Hebrew and Arabic.

Matt Seaton
The British Broadcasting Conundrum

World War II was the BBC’s finest hour, but its history since then reflects the corporation’s gradual loss of primacy in British life.

Sarah Blackwood
Letter from an English Department on the Brink

At the English department I chair, our major has grown by more than 40 percent in the last two years. We are being driven to the edge of extinction anyway.

Free from the Archives

At the 2023 National Magazine Awards, conferred by the American Society of Magazine Editors, we are proud to announce that “‘She’s Capital!,’” an essay by Namwali Serpell from the Review’s July 21, 2022, issue, was the winner in the Reviews and Criticism category. Serpell’s article brought together the work of Émile Zola, Janicza Bravo’s 2021 film Zola, and a viral Twitter thread by the stripper and writer A’Ziah “Zola” King in order to examine the status of sex workers in art and online.

Namwali Serpell
‘She’s Capital!’

The figure of the Whore is everywhere in art, her beauty to be gazed upon and admired. With the Internet, has she finally found her own artistic terrain?