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“All blindness and much worse,” writes Illinois poet Joanne Diaz of the invisibility of Black life to oblivious white people.

David Harvey's book both distills Marx's Capital and makes the text relevant in understanding today's contagion of neoliberal globalization.

This new book is sparking a widespread conversation about the obstacles to talking about white racism with white people.

Sorry to Bother You’s focus on the necessity of workers to realize that they’re stronger and better off as a cohesive unit with the strength of a union behind them is astonishing and refreshing.

One chef is raising the profile of Gullah/Geechee cuisine to help maintain the Nation’s cultural identity.

Rather than recognizing that animation, like any art form, goes through periods of certain styles being more prevalent than others, some fans appear to be convinced that they’ve uncovered an insidious conspiracy to de-gender cartoon characters.

The Grand Old Party, the poet Anthony Squiers reports, “it never really was about morality.” Go know.

An homage to the esteemed late novelist and nonfiction writer Philip Roth, who died on May 22, leaving a legacy of thick description of an American culture where, in Roth's ironic words, “everything goes and nothing matters."

Mandela was not just "a brilliant political tactician and legal mind, but also an exquisite writer," says reviewer Goff. These letters give us a man of high ideals whose "fight for survival" in prison adds Goff, "would have broken many of us."

“If Americans are convinced that their stiff-upper-lip brand of silence in the face of collective murder is the true face of patriotism, then we are condemned as a nation to follow the path of empires that preceded us.” - Doug Rawlings