The journal’s intrepid book reviewer surveys a mélange of fall 2021 university and scholarly books on human origins and development, finding some surprising commonality in an otherwise often conflictual field.
It’s generally illegal to sell prison-made goods across state lines. But since the 1930s, the law has included an exemption for agriculture.
The Spanish-language series, called “Somos.,” draws from Ginger Thompson’s 2017 ProPublica investigation and was written and produced by an almost entirely Mexican crew.
Filmed in the 1950s, Vittorio De Seta's luminous shorts depicting the hardscrabble lives of fishermen, shepherds, peasants, and miners in rural Italy turn documentary into art film.
Bob Dylan turned 80 on Monday. But what’s his greatest song? Stars pick their favorite – and recall their own encounters, from Marianne Faithfull turning him down to Judy Collins whacking a policeman to get backstage
Portside typically aims at reviewing books offering a radical, cogent POV. This is not the case for the book here, a political slapdash whose trade-promoted author justifies if not glorifies mass slaughter in promoting war aims and imperial ventures.
A new biography captures a poet’s commitments, reversals, and reinventions.
Food history – and food programming on TV – has been whitewashed for centuries. This powerful series sets an example of how to start correcting the record
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