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Zohran Mamdani Understands the Precarity of Middle Class American Life

Zohran Mamdani Understands the Precarity of Middle Class American Life

Alissa Quart on the Lessons From Mamdani’s Campaign

By Alissa Quart | January 2, 2026

Why Donald Trump and JD Vance Can’t Stop Talking About Dolls

Why Donald Trump and JD Vance Can’t Stop Talking About Dolls

Alissa Quart on the Social Class Kitsch Behind One of the Weirder Moments in Recent Politics

By Alissa Quart | May 12, 2025

JD Vance is the Toxic Byproduct of America’s Obsession with Bootstrap Narratives

JD Vance is the Toxic Byproduct of America’s Obsession with Bootstrap Narratives

Alissa Quart on the Art of the Deal of the Hillbilly

By Alissa Quart | July 18, 2024

Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

Alissa Quart Reckons With the Precarity of the Writing Life

By Alissa Quart | April 15, 2024

“Zombies,” a Poem by Alissa Quart

“Zombies,” a Poem by Alissa Quart

“When I don’t report on others / I report on myself.”

By Alissa Quart | December 1, 2023

Little House of Propaganda: Homesteading Myths and the Sentimentality of Self-Reliance

Little House of Propaganda: Homesteading Myths and the Sentimentality of Self-Reliance

Alissa Quart on the Bootstrap Narratives of Laura Ingalls Wilder

By Alissa Quart | March 20, 2023

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The Poetry of Labor: On Rodrigo Toscano and the Art of Work

By Alissa Quart | March 4, 2022

Homeless in a Pandemic: The Housing Poetry of Jennifer Fitzgerald

By Alissa Quart | July 28, 2020

'Late Capitalism,' a Prose Poem by Alissa Quart

By Alissa Quart | August 22, 2019