Portside

Rebecca Foust’s poem “Crack” speaks to vulnerability—"just a nick/to break the skin”—that encapsulates the era of pandemic.

The journal’s intrepid book reviewer surveys a mélange of fall 2021 university and scholarly books on human origins and development, finding some surprising commonality in an otherwise often conflictual field.

Filmed in the 1950s, Vittorio De Seta's luminous shorts depicting the hardscrabble lives of fishermen, shepherds, peasants, and miners in rural Italy turn documentary into art film.

It’s generally illegal to sell prison-made goods across state lines. But since the 1930s, the law has included an exemption for agriculture.

The Spanish-language series, called “Somos.,” draws from Ginger Thompson’s 2017 ProPublica investigation and was written and produced by an almost entirely Mexican crew.

California poet Rebecca Foust addresses an accustomed high standard of living that we know is precarious, evanescent.

Portside typically aims at reviewing books offering a radical, cogent POV. This is not the case for the book here, a political slapdash whose trade-promoted author justifies if not glorifies mass slaughter in promoting war aims and imperial ventures.

A new biography captures a poet’s commitments, reversals, and reinventions.

Bob Dylan turned 80 on Monday. But what’s his greatest song? Stars pick their favorite – and recall their own encounters, from Marianne Faithfull turning him down to Judy Collins whacking a policeman to get backstage

'Pritty', a 20-minute animated short, reimagines the typical queer coming of age story by replacing Black trauma with Black joy and discovery through the lens of an intentional Black experience.