Where Are We Headed
Loss of liberty, the rise of civil terror, asks San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil. Is that where we are headed?
The Bund: A Graphic History of Jewish Labour Resistance
Comic's Grinder
"The Bund was a phenomenal uprising of people doing the right thing at a critical time when it was needed most...Think of The Bund as a coalition, a movement, people power at its best."
‘Stop Making Sense’ Is Back, and Talking Heads Have More to Say
The New York Times
The 40th-anniversary restoration of Jonathan Demme's Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense", a great concert film, is a funk spectacle. It has also united the band, which split in 1991, to discuss a landmark achievement.
Popcorn Is a Time Capsule for How We Snack
Taste
Popcorn’s path to ubiquity is marked by the same milestones that we associate with the development of culture—from notable technological advancements to the tension between colonization and repatriation.
The Other Black Girl Review – Workplace Thriller Mixes Satire With Silliness
The Guardian
A blunt but mostly entertaining adaptation of Zakiya Dalila Harris’s bestseller 'The Other Black Girl' explores the complexities of race in the office
What Is Left
Copper Nickel
A survivor of the American war in Cambodia, the poet Bunkong Tuon lives with ancestral ghosts and gratitude for what is left.
Arundhati Roy: The Dismantling of Democracy in India Will Affect the Whole World
Scroll.in
The text of the writer’s speech as she received the 45th European Essay Prize on September 12..."What’s happening in India is not that loose variety of internet fascism. It’s the real thing. We have become Nazis."
Walter Mosley’s New York: Classes Divided, Races at War
The New York Times Book Review
His new novel, “Every Man a King,” is a hard-boiled tale of billionaires, white nationalists and a detective with a complicated past.
Errol Morris Tells Us About Finding an ‘Exquisite Poet of Self Loathing’ in John le Carré
IndieWire
For the AppleTV+ production “The Pigeon Tunnel,” documentary filmmaker Errol Morris again captured elusive quarry by recording four days of interviews with John le Carré (neé David Cornwell) in fall 2019; they proved to be the acclaimed author’s last
America’s Bee Problem Is an Us Problem
The Ringer
You may have heard America’s honeybees are dying. But what does that mean for the people on the front lines—and what could it mean for what ends up on your plate?
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