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Radical thought, urgent theory, feminist rage: rethink your reading for the academic year ahead.

The compound crises of long-term environmental pollution, decades of economic disinvestment, and a pandemic proving especially deadly for working-class people forced to congregate indoors at home or on the job, make for a deadly intersection in a handful of New York City neighborhoods. The hot city is quite literally a killer.

Port disasters, such as the recent deadly explosion in Lebanon, are an inevitable consequence of capital's global circulation, argues Edna Bonhomme.  

Policing is many things and all of them are about mobility. Police arrest mobility through traffic stops and checkpoints, interrupt mobility with borders and curfews, monitor mobility by helicopter or camera, force mobility by firing tear gas or sending in police dogs.

Bruce Robbins introduces his short film on the author of the recently reissued The Invention of the Jewish People.

Patrick Cockburn examines the threads between the pandemic and the media's coverage of age of endless war.

The bestselling books of 2020, including Vivian Gornick, Adorno, Angela Davis, Mike Davis, and Judith Butler.

In an interview Alain Badiou considers the possibilities of a politics outside the state and the problem of power

New York City is steadily sinking into the sea. . .Is there not a plan for that? 

It's now a year since  the Indian government rescinded the autonomy of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, effectively cutting off the beleaguered area from the outside world. In this, Shoaib Shafi speaks to Kashmiris about their experience of a year in lockdown.

"Despite India’s successful overthrow of British rule, it has created a colonial occupation of its own in Jammu and Kashmir. And recently, it has been taking its cues straight from Israel’s playbook."

Recent years have seen a boom in the genetic testing industry. Now, for relatively little money you can have your DNA analysed to see where your ancestors came from. But what does this industry say about how we view race and genetics, and is this merely a return of discredited and politically reactionary race science?