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For Deborah Madison, cooking meat has been a form of reinvention, a rebuke of vegetarianism, and way to rebel against the “Queen of Greens” label that has dogged her for so long.

HBO’s brilliant The White Lotus reminds us that class society permeates everywhere, even on a tropical island — something that US television traditionally does its best to hide.

The experience of migration—whether refugee or voluntary—leaves the scar of uprootedness, as the Persian/American poet Esther Kamkar explains.

W.E.B. Du Bois’s exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition offered him a chance to present a “graphical narrative” of the dramatic gains made by Black Americans since the end of slavery.

This book, by two pioneering feminist literary critics, is an attempt, writes reviewer Margolin, "to follow the cultural history of feminism from the movement’s earliest days up to our present time"

Salt has an important and complicated history in Italy—it’s been the cause and casualty of endless wars. When Cervia became part of the Papal States, its salt became “Il Sale dei Papi, salt of the pope.”

Reservation Dogs is a surreal mashup of hard-edged cynicism and deep longing, one that has a kinship with other stories about marginalized people struggling in the shadow of white folks.

Patty Dickson Pieczka’s poem “After Lorca” marks the Spanish poet’s murder by Spanish fascists on August 16, 1936.

New biography of Mildred Harnack, born in Milwaukee. She was a central part of the anti-Nazi resistance movement inside Nazi Germany, until her capture in 1942. Sentenced to hard labor, she was re-tried under Hitler's order, and executed.

This new selection should help broaden reader interest in the work of this socially conscious poet.