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Palm Royale Is a Weak Critique of the “Bubble” of the Rich

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Showing that rich women in 1969 are “living in a bubble” is like demonstrating that, as ever, water is wet. But even if Palm Royale was meant to deliver messages of great satirical significance, it’s too weak to carry them.

To Eugene J. Loveman

By Alexander F. Bergman They Look Like ME
A long-lost elegy remains a tribute to an American volunteer in the Spanish Civil War.

Through a Grid, Darkly

Adrienne Raphel Los Angeles Review of Books
This book, writes reviewer Raphel, "is both a memoir and a cultural analysis of American crosswords from the 1910s through the 2010s."

Taking a Hammer to It

Jeremy Hsu New Scientist Magazine
An eye-opening read traces today’s collective rage against big tech back to the Luddite uprising the industrial revolution.