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Where Hands Touch focuses so much on the idea that love can traverse any boundary that it forgets there’s no love strong enough to bridge a genocide.

Bread "crumbs" found in fireplaces used by hunter-gatherers 14,000 years ago predate agriculture by thousands of years

Rick and Morty is a dialectic of masculinity unmoored.

Poet Mary Elise Bailey has studied and re-studied the rhetoric of 2016 presidential shopping. This selection is part of a longer work, Duct Tape.

Woodward, one of the two Washington Post city reporters who broke the Watergate story that led to bringing down a president has written another sober, must-read dissection of corruption and rot at the White House.

The author of this book, writes reviewer Quish, "makes a powerful case for a 'socialist constitutionalism' that deserves a place in contemporary debates on the Left."

Farenheit 11/9's strongest sections cede the floor to the progressive activists and insurgent political figures whom he paints as the country’s best, and perhaps last, hope for salvation.

Decolonizing the Diet: Nutrition, Immunity, and the Warning From Early America explores how the forces of nutrition, immunity, environmental change, disease, settler colonialism, and other factors have influenced the health of Native Americans.

Through the characters, The Purge explores the issues of the day, whether it’s race or class or the reality of a really small percentage of people getting all the power.

The subject of Phyllis Klein’s poem is homelessness and a simple, albeit personal solution.