Class Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/class/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:17:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Class Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/class/ 32 32 Pre-Recession Bliss, or Ignorance: “Laguna Beach” @ 20 https://www.publicbooks.org/pre-recession-bliss-or-ignorance-laguna-beach-at-20/ Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:00:20 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58011 There’s a connection between Laguna Beach’s lush close-ups of LC’s face and its recurrent, luxuriating shots of Orange County mansions.

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]]> A #MeToo Novel That Must Be Read #WithYou https://www.publicbooks.org/a-metoo-novel-that-must-be-read-withyou/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 16:00:12 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55132 A South Korean novel critiques violent misogyny within a literature department. Remarkably, it does so by addressing the reader directly.

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]]> “Dignity Matters as Much as Material Needs”: Michèle Lamont on Recognition Claims and Understanding American Politics https://www.publicbooks.org/dignity-matters-as-much-as-material-needs-michele-lamont-on-recognition-claims-and-understanding-american-politics/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:00:48 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53450 “To recognize the existence of injuries requires the recognition of others and their dignity.”

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]]> “We Want More Housing, but How?” Talking with Max Holleran https://www.publicbooks.org/we-want-more-housing-but-how-talking-with-max-holleran/ Tue, 30 May 2023 15:00:24 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52394 “There are a lot of basic things that America has still not accepted in terms of how to live a happy urban life.”

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]]> A Woman’s Working-Class Experimentalism https://www.publicbooks.org/womans-working-class-experimentalism-claire-louise-bennett-checkout-19/ Wed, 18 May 2022 15:00:23 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48653 Where do working-class women who are literary and experimental find, first, their models, and next, their readership?

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]]> “Having to Explain Who You Are”: Caryl Phillips on Baldwin, Fiction, & Sports https://www.publicbooks.org/caryl-phillips-on-james-baldwin-fiction-sports/ Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:00:52 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=47199 “The first thing he said is, ‘Don't call me Mr. Baldwin. My name is Jimmy.’ I thought, this is ridiculous, at the very least he's James.”

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]]> “Lupin” and the Limits of “Haute Culture” https://www.publicbooks.org/lupin-and-the-limits-of-haute-culture/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:00:53 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=47115 Does Netflix’s “Lupin” resist the notoriously white milieu of European high culture, or, instead, endorse it?

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]]> A Dad Cartoonist Travels into Factory Life https://www.publicbooks.org/a-dad-cartoonist-travels-into-factory-life/ Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:00:07 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=46300 The artist comes as a class outsider to the factory, marveling at the complexity of its machinery and the dexterity and dangers of manual labor.

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]]> My Certainty Shall Be Their Confusion https://www.publicbooks.org/my-certainty-shall-be-their-confusion/ Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:00:42 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45857 Ann Quin is, above all, a self-aware writer, with an ironic understanding of the limits of symbolic expression, who was nevertheless prepared to test those limits.

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]]> Prison Tech Comes Home https://www.publicbooks.org/prison-tech-comes-home/ Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:00:10 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=44831 Landlords’, bosses’ and schools’ intrusion of surveillance technologies into the home extends the carceral state into domestic space.

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