Issue section: Culture
review

Unravelling “Arrythmia”

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(New Politics Vol. XIX No. 3, Whole Number 75)

Jonas Marvin reviews Alexander Billet’s book “Shake the City,” which explores the role of music in social movements.

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Transatlantic

Dramatic, Beautiful, and (Perhaps a Little too Much) Fun
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(New Politics Vol. XIX No. 3, Whole Number 75)

Review of a Netflix series on the efforts to get refugees out of Marseilles in 1940-41

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Warsaw Ghetto Cycle: Poems

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(New Politics Vol. XIX No. 3, Whole Number 75)

Poems on the Warsaw Ghetto and its resistance.

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The Revolutionary Spirit

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(New Politics Vol. XIX No. 1, Whole Number 73)

A discussion of the work of the Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

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The Imaginative Dialectic in the Novels of Victor Serge

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(New Politics Vol. XIX No. 1, Whole Number 73)

A discussion of Victor Serge’s novels and how literature can enrich revolutionary socialist politics.

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Satire and Healing

A Conversation with Singer/Songwriter Roy Zimmerman
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(New Politics Vol. XVIII No. 3, Whole Number 71)

An interview with the political singer-songwriter whose anti-Trump song got over 100 million views on social media.

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American Gothic; or, What Melville Can Teach Us

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(New Politics Vol. XVIII No. 3, Whole Number 71)

What Melville crafted might paradoxically be called a gothic humanism. While probing the depths of human depravity with lyricism and wit, Melville’s fiction directly confronted slavery and capitalism.

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