Literary Editor @TheNation. Working on a history of socialism in the United States. Essays and more: http://linktr.ee/davidimarcushttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmarcus.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmarcus.bsky.social/post/3miwdqbwmes2k"A hallmark of Lerner’s fiction is the very particular way that politics encroaches, or rather doesn’t, on the life of the protagonist: It is there as a backdrop, a marker of time and place but not much else." Tara Menon in @thenation.com's Spring Books https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/ben-lerner-transcription-novel/07 Apr 2026 17:50 +0000at://did:plc:dktkrohe7ij77llfewo7ocap/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwdqbwmes2khttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmarcus.bsky.social/post/3mao2fftuis2g"Your Name Here asks how literature should respond to a reality that is equal parts vapid and violent, where the celebration of mediocrity is correlated with an utter disregard for human life." Jess Bergman in @thenation.com https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/helen-dewitt-ilya-gridneff-your-name-here/23 Dec 2025 15:20 +0000at://did:plc:dktkrohe7ij77llfewo7ocap/app.bsky.feed.post/3mao2fftuis2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmarcus.bsky.social/post/3manyybbehc2g@hofrench.bsky.social in a wonderful piece for @thenation.com on Mahmood Mamdani's Uganda https://www.thenation.com/article/world/mamdani-uganda-amin-museveni/23 Dec 2025 14:55 +0000at://did:plc:dktkrohe7ij77llfewo7ocap/app.bsky.feed.post/3manyybbehc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmarcus.bsky.social/post/3lrqfijnyb22bIs it that many New Yorkers find the field disappointing per NYT or rather NYT finds the preferences of many voting New Yorkers disappointing?16 Jun 2025 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:dktkrohe7ij77llfewo7ocap/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrqfijnyb22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmarcus.bsky.social/post/3lqf62cn3mk2aHe’s got the grannies30 May 2025 11:49 +0000at://did:plc:dktkrohe7ij77llfewo7ocap/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqf62cn3mk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmarcus.bsky.social/post/3loy7a6vcqs25‪Why should we do close reading? @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social in @booksandthearts.bsky.social on the history and future of close reading https://www.thenation.com/article/society/close-reading-john-guillory/12 May 2025 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:dktkrohe7ij77llfewo7ocap/app.bsky.feed.post/3loy7a6vcqs25https://bsky.app/profile/davidmarcus.bsky.social/post/3lmagyex55c2q"You could call the business model Trump developed a kind of personality arbitrage." @lioneltrolling.bsky.social in @thenation.com's Spring Books on how the 1980s and 90s made Trump https://www.thenation.com/article/society/donald-trump-books-art-of-the-deal/07 Apr 2025 17:05 +0000at://did:plc:dktkrohe7ij77llfewo7ocap/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmagyex55c2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmarcus.bsky.social/post/3lhtmvutntk2qThe making and remaking of Capital. Epic piece by Alyssa Battistoni in latest @booksandthearts.bsky.social / @thenation.com on Marx’s masterpiece, the history of its translations, and what it means to read it today https://www.thenation.com/article/society/karl-marx-capital-new-translation/ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/karl-marx-capital-new-translation/tnamp/10 Feb 2025 17:05 +0000at://did:plc:dktkrohe7ij77llfewo7ocap/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhtmvutntk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmarcus.bsky.social/post/3lfpupbanfs2zDaniel Bessner in the new @thenation.com on Chomsky and Nathan Robinson's The Myth of American Idealism and the politics of anti-imperialism https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/noam-chomsky-nathan-robinson-myth-american-idealism/14 Jan 2025 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:dktkrohe7ij77llfewo7ocap/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfpupbanfs2z