Some at the BBC fear commemorating George Orwell because he was "too left-wing." But Orwell is not a figure suited to being cast in bronze. He was naturally suspicious of "great men" and averse to hero-worship.

Artists draw African-American literature, from Du Bois to Hurston, in a new Graphics Classics volume.

The gay rights movement must be about more than the fight for marriage equality.

Cartoonist Joe Sacco has taken his time with "Footnotes In Gaza" --six years and 400 carefully drawn pages --to assemble the evidence, weigh it, and present it fairly.

Opaque prose aside, Judith Butler's new book Frames of War asks crucial questions about how we tolerate state-sanctioned death.