Alex Gendler
Alex Gendler is a Ukrainian-born, Brooklyn-based writer, editor, and translator who has published articles in American Affairs, Metro, and The Battleground, produced content for TED-Ed and Voice of America, appeared on podcasts like The Antifada and Bungacast, and presented at the International Society for Metal Music Studies and the Society for Psychoanalytic Inquiry. You can find more of his work at https://alexgendler.com.
In Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (London: Verso, 2024), Adam Hanieh—Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at the University of Exeter—sets out to demystify the substance itself through a densely packed yet highly readable history of our interaction with oil at every step from its extraction to its consumption.
