Are progressive politics the real reason why US lawmakers are spooked by Tiktok?
Arwa Mahdawi
Lawmakers say they’re on the warpath because TikTok’s owner is a national security threat. Some users think the app has become a hub for progressive activism
February 2024
The Zone of Interest invites us to face the Holocaust and ask: could we have done this?
Charlotte Higgins
Through an Auschwitz commandant’s family life, Jonathan Glazer’s chilling new film reminds us of the banality of evil, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer
November 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 postmodern books
From opaque theory to giddily playful fiction by Chris Kraus and Salman Rushdie, the era that followed modernism is as much about politics as art
September 2021
Gender now
Judith Butler: ‘We need to rethink the category of woman’
The author of the ground-breaking book Gender Trouble says we should not be surprised when the category of women expands to include trans women
August 2020
Writers, actors and directors call for end to homophobia in Poland in open letter
More than 70 signatories including Poland’s Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, Margaret Atwood and Mike Leigh accuse Duda’s government of using LGBTQ+ people as ‘a scapegoat’
August 2013
A book that changed me
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Judith Butler showed me the transformative power of the word queer
Natalie Hanman
Natalie Hanman: A book that changed me: Queer theory informs my politics and journalism – and made me understand Robert, my childhood alter ego
February 2012
Occupy!: Scenes From Occupied America; edited by Astra Taylor, Keith Gessen et al – review
A collection of essays from those involved in the Occupy movement is both analytical and full of vivid experience, writes Michael Sayeau
May 2009
Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
Review: Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? by Judith Butler
June 2004
Counting the cost of revenge
Mary Midgley assesses Judith Butler's Precarious Life, a collection of provocative post-9/11 essays
