Danny Boyle’s “28 Days Later”
Hollywood Progressive
A Zombie Film that Still Speaks to Our Current World, and with Quite a Bit of Class
After Two Climate-Decimated Harvests, Southern Peach Farmers Wonder How To Regroup
The Guardian
Warmer winters, late freezes and wildly variable rainfall have formed a perfect storm to wreck the one of the region’s favorite fruits
Suits Is an Unlikely Time Capsule for a Troubled Decade
Vox
Suits is half comfort watch, half reckoning — and America can’t stop streaming.
Visiting
Cultural Daily
New York poet Rebecca Schumejda offers a parent’s heart-rending account of a visit to her incarcerated child.
How the War on Poverty Stalled
The New Republic
The study of poverty has flourished in recent decades. Why haven’t the lives of the poor improved?
The Blood Is Everywhere in Pablo Larraín’s Mesmerizing El Conde
Vulture
In Pablo Larrain's new film the villain is not a fictional one. He is General Augusto Pinochet, the brutal, U.S.-backed military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990 and died in 2006 still with the blood of thousands on his hands.
Bananas for Socialism
Dissent Magazine
In any socialist future worth living in, an abundance of diverse foods would replace the tyranny of monoculture.
Killing It Is a Perfect Comedic Takedown of Late-Stage Capitalism
AV Club
In season two, Peacock's weird and funny satire "Killing It" carves up the myth of the American dream
Heavy Work
Poetry for Labor Day: The working-class persists, survives, says California poet Lita Kurth; but it sure isn’t easy.
‘The Man Who Changed Colors’
People's World
Reviewer Bachtell on this "multi-layered working-class suspense thriller," the second novel by this widely respected working class movement leader, activist, and thinker.
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