Writer, Academic, Activist, Commentator

Category: On Books and Publishing

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

On Books and Publishing

Scabs: Academics and Others Who Write for Free

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 11, 2014

Excerpt: Those who write for free or very little simply because they can afford to are scabs.

Machinery Painting - South Wall Of A Mural Depicting Detroit Industry by Diego Rivera

Tags Scabs, Writers

Gay Marriage On Books and Publishing

My Review of “The Marrying Kind?” Is in In These Times

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 13, 2014

No amount of fisting, fucking, fellatio, cunninglus or S/M…actually shifts the meaning of marriage within the state itself.

Gay Marriage On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

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.