Category: On Books and Publishing

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

Whose Gay History?: Review of Queer Clout

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 25, 2016

Segregation in this city is not some genteel agreement between the races and ethnicities to quietly live away from each other.

On Books and Publishing Updates

The Mother of All Updates

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 29, 2016

On Books and Publishing Politics

Review of Anthropology’s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East, in Electronic Intifada

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 25, 2016

Anthropology as a discipline has always been rooted in imperialism.

On Books and Publishing

My Review of Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert, in Current Affairs

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 6, 2016

In other words, Gilbert, who has spent half her life as a professional writer, now believes that hers is simply a vocation.

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

Room: From Novel to Film

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 18, 2016

Call me a classicist, but years of reading novels tells me when something is off.

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

All Those Mad, Mag Feels

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 17, 2016

Excerpt: Even as a kid, I loved that first, heady rush of anticipation I experienced with every one of them.

Feminism On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The Feminist Utopia Project Isn’t Utopian Just Yet

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 8, 2016

The problem here is that greed is situated as an emotional and cultural value, rather than as what it is: a structural component of capitalism.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

I’m a Freelance Writer. I Refuse to Work for Free.

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 26, 2016

You’re not doing it for the money, but you’re making it impossible for me to earn a living.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

The Irony of Writing About Poverty On Medium

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 24, 2016

Excerpt: What is it about writing that we don’t see it as something that deserves compensation as labour? And why do we think that it’s okay to pay millionaires and billionaires with our labor instead of demanding that they pay us?

On Books and Publishing Politics

Review of Steven Salaita’s Uncivil Rites

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 4, 2015

“We ought to complicate academic freedom even as we vigorously defend it.”