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books

Moral Limits

Avram Alpert Dissent Magazine
This book, writes reviewer Alpert, is "a powerful account of our failures to stop the war in Gaza, despite the professed worth we place on values like empathy.

food

Bring Back Horn & Hardart

Laine Doss Broken Palate
David Arena relaunched Horn & Hardart a little over two years ago. His goal is to bring back not just the company but its values.

poetry

Night Owl

Patrick Daly
California poet Patrick Daly reflects on the reach, and limits, of the imagination, where nature, art and politics intertwine in often disturbing ways.

poetry

Electrodomestico

Prartho Sereno
Marin County poet Prartho Sereno meditates on the ironic response of her mother's generation to the promises of technology.

poetry

My California

Beau Beausoleil
West Coast poet Beau Beausoleil reflects on the momentary beauties which somehow compensate for our everyday sense of exile and displacement.

film

The IP Machine Laughs at Itself

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg mock Hollywood’s creative collapse in The Studio — while continuing to churn out sequels, reboots, and branded spin-offs.
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