Category: On Books and Publishing

Book reviews and author interviews, as well essays on the state of publishing.

“Cat Person” Will Never Die

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 20, 2021

Excerpt: Sometimes you create a monster and are proud of the havoc it wreaks upon the world. Sometimes you create a monster and watch it do its thing and then realise that it has just turned around and is about to devour you.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

The Publishing World Is Like Fyre Fest

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 3, 2021

Excerpt: It’s a lifestyle many writers yearn for: unhurried, complacent, lots of manufactured insouciance, and lots of money to write about it all.

On Books and Publishing

Buy That Book!

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 17, 2021

You will always have that experience, and it will always be for the better.

Feminism On Books and Publishing

On Jane Austen’s Frederic and Elfrida

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 19, 2021

As if marital forms and not marriage itself were the problem…

On Books and Publishing Yasmin's Media Appearances

My “The Politics of Publishing” Is Out in Current Affairs

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 1, 2020

Fixing the publishing industry will require eliminating exploitation, not just improving representation.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Yasmin's Media Appearances

I was on the Current Affairs Podcast, Talking about Publishing

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 1, 2020

Animals On Books and Publishing Yasmin's Media Appearances

A “Min-terview” with Current Affairs, Where I Am Confronted about My Kitten-Eating Habits and I Also Take on the World of Publishing

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 28, 2020

A great book is like the memory of an excellent conversation: it lasts and returns in intangible ways for years and shifts your thinking.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Review of Gay Inc

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 20, 2019

The nonprofit world runs on the fumes of exhaustion, desperate hope, and a general sense of futility exuded by its denizens.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Gay Marriage On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Polyamory Is Gay Marriage for Straight People

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 15, 2019

Excerpt: The problem with relationships is not that individuals engage in them in particular ways, but that systems compel individuals to relate to each other in particular ways.

Academia Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

A World of Shame: Time, Belonging, and Social Media

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 12, 2018

Excerpt: This is a murder mystery without a murder. Think of it like a Brian De Palma movie from the 1970s: a streetwalker is found dead in an alleyway, and the detective assigned to the case is about to write it up as another transaction gone awry until he begins to see the clues that unravel a sprawling political conspiracy.
The body is incidental.