Portside

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

"It must be said," writes reviewer Finkel, "that this book is essential reading, but not pleasant for anyone."

He sees Dracula as fiction’s ultimate capitalist victimizer, exploiting the lifeforce of others for his own pleasure, whether financial or physical. But the vampire has been exploited by plenty of capitalists as well, especially those in the movies.

Chick-fil-A buys its chicken from a company fined by the Department of Labor for employing 14-year-olds to eviscerate poultry at an Alabama packing plant. Children also operated fork lifts, worked on the kill floor, and worked overnight shifts.

The latest episode brutally spoofed the Homeland Security boss.

Iranian-American poet Esther Kamkar has lived in both Iran and Israel. Rather than split herself in two, she strives to knit her warring halves together.

If denial of collective self-determination of a people is a sin of the modern age, as Israeli defenders often repeat, what of the self-determination of Palestinians? Palestinian violence falls and rises when the hopes for autonomy...[are] crushed...

In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action.

Ari Aster’s new film, Eddington, pulls no punches against the Right or the Left. Yet its message is anything but moderate.

One Love Community, which offers free food for neighbors in need, operates 10 community fridges and supports 30 partner fridges in NY and Seattle, with LA and Atlanta to follow soon.