In Boston Review’s new issue Brute Force and Plunder, Aslı Ü. Bâli and Aziz Rana trace the path to the Trump doctrine through U.S. coercion in the Middle East, Gerald Epstein examines the crypto coalition’s plan, and Vivian Gornick revisits a childhood memoir from Nazi Germany.
Also in this issue:
On ICE: Robin D. G. Kelley puts terror tactics in context, Liv Veazey covers the Canal Street raids, and Joshua Craze reports from immigration court
Adam Bonica and Jake Grumbach unpack Democrats’ timidity in the face of authoritarianism
Photographer Salih Basheer documents loss and displacement in Sudan
Benjamin Balthaser reviews historian Mark Mazower’s On Antisemitism
Plus columns by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and David Austin Walsh; fiction from Emmett Rensin; and a special 50th anniversary archive feature with introductions from George Scialabba, Jeet Heer, Junot Díaz, Jessie Kindig, Daniel Denvir, Pankaj Mishra, and Katrina vanden Heuvel.
Vivian Gornick’s most recent book is Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time.
Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has been featured in the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Black Music Research Journal, African Studies Review, New York Times, The Crisis, The Nation, and Voice Literary Supplement.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Climate and Community Institute. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Elite Capture, a contributor to Greta Thunberg’s The Climate Book, and a past recipient of a Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar fellowship. Táíwò’s public philosophy, including articles exploring intersections of climate justice and colonialism, has been featured in The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, Boston Review, Dissent, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Hammer & Hope (where he is a member of the Editorial Team). His writings have been translated into Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Korean, among other languages.
ISBN: 9798993749419
Publication date: April 30, 2026
“Boston Review is unique and simply indispensable in its dignified refusal to phrase essential critiques in vague or sentimental pieties.”
—Pankaj Mishra, essayist and novelist on A. Dirk Moses’s essay “More than Genocide”
“Like the best Boston Review essays, Hogeland’s counternarrative is work of brisk, common-sense radicalism. It presciently outlined the contours of the new elite ideology of militaristic plutocracy that disguised itself as a national origin story of democratic meritocracy.”
—Jeet Heer, national affairs correspondent for The Nation on William Hogeland’s essay “Inventing Alexander Hamilton”
“We need essays like this, and magazines like Boston Review, to see through the self-serving narratives of the powerful and expose the injustice that so many insist on obscuring.”
—Daniel Denvir, writer and host of The Dig on Harsha Walia’s essay “There Is No ‘Migrant Crisis’”
by Omer Bartov, Lorna Finlayson, et al.
by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, David Waldstreicher, et al.
by Noura Erakat, Robin D. G. Kelley, et al.
Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, et al.
One of the best ways you can support Haymarket is by becoming a member of our subscription program. Receive up to 40 books per year and help ensure the future of radical publishing.
Join today and start your subscription with one or more of these new books!
