Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy, accomplished authors weigh in on timely issues, and a wide range of readers encounter the most vital academic insights and explore what they mean for the world at large.
Think in Public: A Public Books Reader presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the magazine’s distinctive approach to public scholarship. Gathered here are Public Books contributions from today’s leading thinkers, including Jill Lepore, Imani Perry, Kim Phillips-Fein, Salamishah Tillet, Jeremy Adelman, N. D. B. Connolly, Namwali Serpell, and Ursula K. Le Guin. The result is a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change by writers and researchers pushing public debate about these topics in new directions. Think in Public is a lodestone for a rising generation of public scholars and a testament to the power of knowledge.
- Table of Contents
- Introduction, by Sharon Marcus and Caitlin Zaloom
- Part I. Ask in Public
- On Accelerationism, by Fred Turner
- Justice for Data Janitors, by Lilly Irani
- Anthropocene and Empire, by Stacey Balkan
- Changing Climates of History, by J. R. McNeill
- The Year of Black Memoir, by Imani Perry
- Pop Justice, by Frances Negrón-Muntaner
- A Black Power Method, by N. D. B. Connolly
- Soft Atheism, by Matthew Engelke
- Where Do Morals Come From?, by Philip Gorski
- The Alchemy of Finance, by Kim Phillips-Fein
- How Gentrifiers Gentrify, by Max Holleran
- Syria’s Wartime Famine at 100: “Martyrs of the Grass”, by Najwa al-Qattan
- The Mortal Marx, by Jeremy Adelman
- Who Segregated America?, by Destin Jenkins
- The Invention of the “White Working Class”, by Andrew J. Perrin
- Going Deep: Baseball and Philosophy, by Kieran Setiya
- The World Silicon Valley Made, by Shannon Mattern
- Part II. Think in Public
- Jill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things: An Interview, by B. R. Cohen
- James Baldwin’s Istanbul, by Suzy Hansen
- When Stuart Hall Was White, by James Vernon
- An Interview with Former Black Panther Lynn French , by Salamishah Tillet
- Black Intellectuals and White Audiences, by Matthew Clair
- Can There Be a Feminist World?, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- The Story’s Where I Go: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, by John Plotz
- Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking, by Christopher Schaberg
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- Translating the Untranslatable: An Interview with Barbara Cassin, by Rebecca L. Walkowitz
- My Neighbor Octavia, by Sheila Liming
- Stop Defending the Humanities, by Simon During
- Painting While Shackled to a Floor, by Nicole R. Fleetwood
- Part III. Read in Public
- To Translate Is to Betray: On Elena Ferrante, by Rebecca Falkoff
- What Global English Means for World Literature, by Haruo Shirane
- The Stranger’s Voice, by Karl Ashoka Britto
- Can’t Stop Screaming, by Judith Butler
- The Model-Minority Bubble, by Joseph Jonghyun Jeon
- Free Is and Free Ain’t, by Salamishah Tillet
- The Mixed-Up Kids of Mrs. E. L. Konigsburg, by Marah Gubar
- In the Great Green Room: Margaret Wise Brown and Modernism, by Anne E. Fernald
- Afrofuturism: Everything and Nothing, by Namwali Serpell
- Chick Lit Meets the Avant-Garde, by Tess McNulty
- Feeling Like the Internet, by Mark McGurl
- The People v. O. J. Simpson as Historical Fiction, by Nicholas Dames
- Kafka: The Impossible Biography, by Jan Mieszkowski
- Shirley Jackson’s Two Worlds, by Karen Dunak
- Reading to Children to Save Ourselves, by Daegan Miller
- List of Contributors
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