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October 24, 2023

“Killers of the Flower Moon” a Slow, Staggering American Conspiracy

David Sims The Atlantic

Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann’s best-selling Killers of the Flower Moon explores the rot beneath the myth of American exceptionalism.

October 23, 2023

California Bans ‘Toxic Chemicals in Our Food Supply,’ Including an Ingredient in Marshmallow Peeps Linked to Cancer

The Associated Press Fortune

Governor Newsom has signed several bills into law, including a sweeping mandate requiring large businesses to disclose a wide range of planet-warming emissions. Newsom has until Oct. 14 to act on legislation that lawmakers sent to his desk.

October 22, 2023

Mike Flanagan’s the Fall of the House of Usher Is Bingeable Halloween Viewing

EILEEN JONES Jacobin

Netflix’s resident horror auteur is back with his take on Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. You’ll have a good time — even if some of the nods to “sociopolitical relevance” might send your eyes rolling.

October 20, 2023

Holes

W.D. Ehrhart

Among the many things the USA left behind in Vietnam, besides pride, remains safely underground.

October 18, 2023

The Many Worlds of American Communism

Joel Wendland-Liu Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

This new study of the Communist Party USA, says, reviewer Wendland-Liu, "is at its best in its detailed treatment of political debates and the labor histories of the formative period and the popular front period."

October 16, 2023

The 10th-Century Master Chef Who Wrote Food Poetry

Fehmida Zakeer Atlas Obscura

Kushajim's verses offer a glimpse into the good life during the Islamic Golden Age.

October 15, 2023

The Actors Strike Negotiations Have Broken Down

Alissa Wilkinson Vox

The two big sticking points between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP, explained.

October 13, 2023

Our Revels

Donna Pucciani

“And now we mourn the temperate days,” writes Chicago poet Donna Pucciani, as the news of weather is seldom good.

October 11, 2023

How Cities Can Transform Democracy

Charlotte Cator LSE Review of Books

This study of "of the political meaning of the city under global urbanisation," writes reviewer Cator, is particularly timely "in light of ongoing global housing struggles and a widespread surge in the cost of living."

October 10, 2023

‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Proves the Power of Poetry

Mckenna Neef Vox

Nikki Giovanni is one of America’s most acclaimed poets and a well-known voice of the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Lives Matter movements. A powerful writer and trailblazing activist, Giovanni’s words have inspired the masses for decades.