“Europe in Revolt” – edited by Catarina Principe and Bhaskar Sunkara

On the long political journey we call history, Europe has crossed a bridge and lurched right. It isn’t alone. Barack Obama’s presidency – nominally to the left of center – has seen assassinations by drone, more deportations than any president in history, the failure to close Guantánamo, and not a single Wall Street banker prosecuted…

“Notes on the Assemblage” by Juan Felipe Herrera

Juan Felipe Herrera is a protean figure, a one-man dynamo: an actor, activist, professor, musician, author of thirty books, and now the first Latino Poet Laureate of the United States. His personal story is extraordinary. His parents were migrant workers, constantly on the move across California. He found an alternative path when he won a…

Interview with the editor of the New York Times Book Review in “Poets & Writers”

The New York Times Book Review is probably the number one place on Planet Earth to get your book reviewed. It reaches 1.7 million readers a week. That’s why I was interested in this terrific little interview with Pamela Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review, conducted by Michael Taeckens in the May/June issue…