Traversing the rise of second-wave feminism, Catherine Dwyer’s documentary is an important contribution to an overlooked past
Anne Willan weaves culinary history, writing and teaching into her fascinating new book, Women in the Kitchen.
CNN’s Brian Stelter on the conservative backlash against Fox News, the rise of Newsmax, and the bottomless appetite for right-wing propaganda.
This "remarkable collection," says reviewer Rader, "is the most inclusive and the most comprehensive anthology of Native American poetry to date."
Ever since Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, newspapers and magazines have been obsessed with constructing a mythology of a “forgotten” white working class. Hillbilly Elegy just reinforces the stereotypes it insists it’s illuminating.
In a series of short essays, Marion Nestle discusses her current thinking on food-system issues in her new book, Let’s Ask Marion.
There is an inherent paradox in the creation of a TV series set in a future that is intended to be better than the world of today, that the production and creative direction of said show is still ruled by the cultural restrictions of its own time.
The Enlightenment and other liberation ideologies had put slavery under fire. “This was the international context of insurgent liberalism that the Confederacy sought to reverse with its bid for a reactionary slaveholders’ republic..
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