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California poet Lee Rossi explores the impact of toppling old heroes, their myths, their monuments, their wrongs.

A pungent and exhaustive evaluation of the short-lived, pre-war popular front government of France, written on the heels of its demise by the brilliant French writer Simone Weil, with an introduction by the NLR editors.

This book, by pediatrician, scientist and activist Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, is the first-hand account of record of the Flint Water Crisis, written by the person that brought the catastrophe to the public's attention.

For Asian and Asian-American viewers, "Crazy Rich Asians" which opens on Aug. 15, is important not just as something of a cinematic Halley’s comet — before “Joy Luck Club” in 1993, there was “Flower Drum Song” in 1961, and now what?

Of the twenty-three categories of James Beard Awards this year, (some of which were awarded to groups or entire restaurants), well over half were won by women or people of color.

Representation alone isn’t enough to make a show political. You have to do something with it. Claws finds a way to tie its characters to a broader political narrative in almost every episode.

New York poet Philip Fried makes a diagnosis of brain damage to explain the body politic of a certain politician with orange hair.

An eyewitness account of the 2016 Sanders presidential insurgency that weighs its electoral successes against its ability to form the core of social and economic movement resistance to capital.

Jenny Farrell discusses one of the great working class novels in English literature, a literary exposure of the 'Great Money Trick' - the exploitation inherent in capitalism.

What does it mean to be a socialist in America? 'Prairie Trilogy' is a documentary series (made between 1977 and 1980) chronicling how North Dakota workers and farmers organized to take power back from corporate interests in the East in 1916.