The Anti-Capitalist System Keeping Americans From Reading Books

There’s a reading crisis in our society — and it’s all because of capitalism. Or so The Jacobin wants you to think. “In 1939,” writes Ned Rust for Bhaskar Sunkara’s socialist magazine, “the 25¢ paperback made America a nation of readers, delivering thrillers, classics, and Pulitzer-winning books. So why did the Big Five publishers just ...

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