Category: On Books and Publishing

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

My Review of “The Battle over Marriage” Is Just Out in the Chicago Reader

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 18, 2013

She takes their claims at face value.

Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Labour On Books and Publishing

On Writers as Scabs, Whores, and Interns, And the Jacobin Problem

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 11, 2013

Left publishing will increasingly be filled with lots of timid writing that doesn’t require the hard skills that experienced writers might bring to their work.

Tags Jacobin, Left Publishing

On Books and Publishing

Writing and Wanking

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 5, 2013

We’re all such a bunch of pretentious wankers anyway.

Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

Review of Trash Animals

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 18, 2013

What makes a trash animal?

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

Margot Weiss talks BDSM and sexuality

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 30, 2013

“I’ll leave this with Patrick Califia’s words: ‘I do not believe that we can fuck our way to freedom.'”

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

No More City on a Hill: Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 23, 2013

Because it’s when you really believe in people, that’s when they can really let you down.

Academia On Books and Publishing

On Paul de Man

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 21, 2013

I’m also struck by the extremely reductive and sweeping generalisations being made about theory. Criticism of the same would be more worthwhile if it didn’t come from such an anti-intellectual space.

Academia On Books and Publishing

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Žižek: You Learnt It in Grad School

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 18, 2013

Žižek represents a comforting spot for overgrown graduate students.

Hate Crime Legislation On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Review of Stephen Jimenez’s new book, The Book of Matt

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 16, 2013

In the annals of vengeance disguised as justice, the point, it seemed, was not to condemn the murders committed by the state, but to celebrate innocence.

On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Two Pieces on Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 6, 2013

“We were the beginning of the end and we didn’t know what to do because we’d just found the beginning.”