Gogol’s Nose: On the Scent of Our Times
September 1, 2025
September 1, 2025
November 1, 2024
Christian Noakes invites readers into a literary exploration of Franz Kafka’s short story, “Josephine the Singer.” After all, as the author notes, “Kafka’s often nightmarish stories reflect many of the social, political, and cultural dynamics inherent under capitalism.” In applying this notion to “Josephine the Singer,” Noakes discovers a tale that describes not only the mechanisms of domination that constrain us, but the possibilities of a new consciousness, and a new world.
September 1, 2022
H. Bruce Franklin is a former Air Force navigator and intelligence officer, a progressive activist, and the John Cotton Dana professor emeritus of English and American Studies at Rutgers University…. READ MORE
April 1, 2021
Michael D. Yates is editorial director of Monthly Review Press. He is the author of Can the Working Class Change the World? (Monthly Review Press, 2018), among many other books…. READ MORE
March 1, 2021
Camila Valle is an editor, translator, and writer. She is assistant editor of Monthly Review. Manuel Tiago (Álvaro Cunhal), Five Days, Five Nights, trans. Eric A. Gordon (New York: International… READ MORE
February 1, 2021
Aleksandra Djurasovic is an independent researcher with academic interests in urbanism, ecology, and post-socialist, neoliberal, and war-to-peace transitions in Southeast Europe, among other topics. Milan Djurasovic is a published author… READ MORE
March 1, 2020
Nylca J. Muñoz Sosa is a doctoral candidate in public health specializing in social determinants of health at the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico. She also… READ MORE
November 1, 2019
Ian Angus edits the website Climate and Capitalism and is the author, most recently, of A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2017). An… READ MORE
November 1, 2019
� Nicholas Powers is a professor, poet, and journalist. He is the author of The Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall… READ MORE
May 1, 2019
Atilio Borón is an Argentine sociologist and author of Empire and Imperialism (London: Zed, 2005). He writes regularly on his blog, atilioboron.com.ar. On February 11, 2019, Ariel Dorfman published an… READ MORE