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/3myzn6zilds26Debs ran for president not to win. He ran to awaken Americans to their common predicament as workers and to get them to go do something about it. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/books/review/american-socialist-shawn-gude.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L1E.zz1Y.9PeG3LY98tfb&smid=nytcore-ios-share29 Oct 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:dktkrohe7ij77llfewo7ocap/app.bsky.feed.post/3myzn6zilds26https://bsky.app/profile/davidmarcus.bsky.social/post/3myzn6zilds26Debs ran for president not to win. He ran to awaken Americans to their common predicament as workers and to get them to go do something about it. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/books/review/american-socialist-shawn-gude.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L1E.zz1Y.9PeG3LY98tfb&smid=nytcore-ios-share29 Oct 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:dktkrohe7ij77llfewo7ocap/app.bsky.feed.post/3myzn6zilds26https://bsky.app/profile/davidmarcus.bsky.social/post/3myubdsiwoc2sReviewed the new Debs biography for @nytimes.com https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/books/review/american-socialist-shawn-gude.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/books/review/american-socialist-shawn-gude.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share27 Oct 2026 12:45 +0000at://did:plc:dktkrohe7ij77llfewo7ocap/app.bsky.feed.post/3myubdsiwoc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmarcus.bsky.social/post/3myubdsiwoc2sReviewed the new Debs biography for @nytimes.com https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/books/review/american-socialist-shawn-gude.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/books/review/american-socialist-shawn-gude.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share27 Oct 2026 12:45 +0000at://did:plc:dktkrohe7ij77llfewo7ocap/app.bsky.feed.post/3myubdsiwoc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmarcus.bsky.social/post/3myd4b3lj6k2h“What started out as a straight documentary turns into an almost absurd, almost distasteful experiment, and an argument that the only real way to know something is not through hours of faithful recording but through an elaborate artifice.” @lauramarsh.bsky.social https://newrepublic.com/article/216772/can-see-everything-elizabeth-holmes-unexpectedly-heartbreaking20 Oct 2026 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:dktkrohe7ij77llfewo7ocap/app.bsky.feed.post/3myd4b3lj6k2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmarcus.bsky.social/post/3mvif4hpt6s2l"The social contract is no longer working: Going to college does not ensure anything other than...often low-paying work." @alexnpress.bsky.social in Fall Books on @noamscheiber.bsky.social's new book and the making of the millennial working class https://www.thenation.com/article/society/noam-scheiber-mutiny-working-class/14 Sep 2026 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:dktkrohe7ij77llfewo7ocap/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvif4hpt6s2lhttps://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/3lrqfijnyb22b