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Add these to your reading list to celebrate International Women’s Day.

David Simon and fellow The Wire veteran George Pelecanos are teaming up to make a new limited series for HBO called We Own This City, which is based on journalist Justin Fenton’s book of the same name.

California poet Patrick Daly writes in the wake of January 6, 2021 about “that other House” endangered by a mob or by “An angry man/red and orange like a flame?”

A former student and admirer of the late Canadian Marxist Leo Panitch writes on his influence as a teacher, scholar and militant.

"If Wikipedia is a test case for techno-utopianism," writes reviewer Panovka, "it is also a test case for an older ideology similarly unfashionable these days—your garden-variety Enlightenment-era liberalism."

The new film Nomadland is a heartfelt look at the lives of itinerant Americans cast aside by the Great Recession. But it ignores how employers like Amazon are raking in profits off this new class of worker.

In the humorless world of Woke, the satire is never funny and the statute of limitations never expires, even when it comes to hamantaschen.

Superman & Lois pointedly comments on real-world issues. The Daily Planet suffers a round of brutal media layoffs and Smallville, once thriving, is crumbling under an economic collapse that sees big businesses buying up all the small family farms.

California poet Fred Norman offers a beautiful elegy to Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

The much renowned poet, political insurgent and countercultural pioneer put on trial for publishing Allen Ginsberg’s Howl went on to become a beloved icon of San Francisco and a respected poet worldwide.