April 11, 2021 The Power of Televising Derek Chauvin’s Trial Alissa Wilkinson Vox We saw George Floyd die onscreen. We need to see this too.
April 9, 2021 Earth Shovel Dan Albergotti Cincinnati Review “The thing about the universe,” writes poet Dan Albergotti, “is that it seems infinite, but really it’s only a ceaseless series of extinctions.”
April 8, 2021 Tangled Up in Blue: Lessons for Police Reform? Steve Early CounterPunch Law professor and scion of a widely read radical activist/author family, Rosa Brooks went beyond the blue wall of silence in her inside view of American policing. Among the retrograde lessons stressed in training, “Anyone can kill you at any time.”
April 7, 2021 The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Sheela Clary The Berkshire Edge This book seeks to deepen the conversation about how racism hurts the whole of our society, not just those that are its primary targets.
April 6, 2021 Americans Believe In Work. WeWork Preyed On That Instinct. Alissa Wilkinson Vox On Hulu’s new documentary and why we keep falling for guys like Adam Neumann.
April 5, 2021 When Did Following Recipes Become a Personal Failure? Laura Shapiro The Atlantic A new book that claims to make the act of cooking fun when it sometimes seems like a chore is an exciting, though daunting, invitation to improvise.
April 4, 2021 Superstore Was the Best Sitcom of Its Era, A Wildly Funny and Poignant Capitalist Tragedy Emily VanDerWerff Vox The fantastic comedy, now streaming in full on Hulu, never lost sight of how corporate America makes life hell for the people who work within it.
April 2, 2021 Thief Lee Sharkey AGNI The late poet Lee Sharkey illuminates varieties of theft—“The CEO,” “The tyrant,” “the thief of memory.”
April 1, 2021 Following the Traces: A Roundup of Forthcoming University Releases Scott McLemee Inside Higher Ed The reviewer highlights some of the noteworthy (and readable) academic press books coming out in the first half of 2021.
March 31, 2021 Fanon Can’t Save You Now Todd Cronan Los Angeles Review of Books This newly published collection of newspaper columns enriches our understanding of this singly important revolutionary theorist and activist.
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