On the Dry Sea of Sonora
Chiron Review
Arizona-based poet Lollie Butler’s poetry captures the horrors of refugees crossing the Sonora desert.
poetry
Quarantine
“Even Andrew Cuomo finds time to call his mother,” explains Oregon poet Christine Hamm, addressing the emotional impact of the long quarantine.
Feet, What Do I Need You For?' How Lockdown Fired Up Frida Kahlo
The Guardian
With a year to live, and confined to bed by injury and illness, the great Mexican artist transformed her bedroom into a sanctuary - and turned her pain into magnificent work.
books
When Solidarity Mattered
CounterPunch
This book is a new and innovative look at a pivotal moment in U.S. labor history.
film
The Innocence Files: A Shocking Netflix Documentary Series on Wrongful Convictions
The Guardian
A new documentary series uses individual cases of false convictions to reveal a terrifyingly unreliable criminal justice system.
tv
'The Last Dance' is a Reminder of America's Enduring Inequality
CNN
"The Last Dance" is more than just the story of a legendary basketball team. It's a broader reminder that, in America, inequality touches everything -- including sports.
books
Debating Black Freedom
Jacobin
Liberator Magazine was one of the most important African American periodicals to be published in the United States during the 1960s. The book under review is the first full-length account of the life and times of this pivotal journal.
books
The Dilemmas of Lenin
Counterfire
A look back on the key revolutionary more frequently worshiped on the left than read, Ali's Lenin biography includes his last years' observation that "we knew nothing," insisting that the revolution had to be renewed lest it wither and die.
film
'Tiger King': The Most-Watched Show in America Is a Moral Failure
The Atlantic
Netflix’s documentary 'Tiger King' is the apotheosis of extreme storytelling: The more unfathomable and ethically dubious, the better.
food
The legacy of Japanese internment looms over my family’s history. For me, cooking forges connection between that crisis and this one.
The Counter
Learning to cook Japanese food reminds me of uncomfortable links between the past and present—and renews my faith in small acts of resistance and heroism.
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