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The makers of plant-based meats are up against decades—if not centuries and millennia—of messaging tying meat eating to masculinity.

We saw George Floyd die onscreen. We need to see this too.

“The thing about the universe,” writes poet Dan Albergotti, “is that it seems infinite, but really it’s only a ceaseless series of extinctions.”

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.”

This book seeks to deepen the conversation about how racism hurts the whole of our society, not just those that are its primary targets.

On Hulu’s new documentary and why we keep falling for guys like Adam Neumann.

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.

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.

The late poet Lee Sharkey illuminates varieties of theft—“The CEO,” “The tyrant,” “the thief of memory.”

The reviewer highlights some of the noteworthy (and readable) academic press books coming out in the first half of 2021.