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Party Down: Charmingly Low-Budget Workplace Satire From the Makers of Veronica Mars

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen The Guardian
The show never leaves the workplace. The complexities of these characters’ lives and relationships are teased out within the confines of their job, blurring the boundaries between personal and professional to create an almost claustrophobic intimacy. It’s also strangely prescient of the current, increasingly precarious gig economy.

What Is a ‘Dark Grocery Store’ and How Does It Work?

Chase Shustack Daily Meal
Dark grocery stores exist solely for delivery purposes. There are no customers to shop the aisles, and there are no checkout lines; it is less like an ordinary grocery store and more like a shipping center hidden under the façade of a grocery store.

I’m No Martian

William J Harris HEY FELLA WOULD YOU MIND HOLDING THIS PIANO A MOMENT
The Brooklyn poet William J. Harris has something to say about guilt by association as so many of your own best friends have been accused.

Putinism’s Defeated Opposition

Aleksandra Simonova Dissent Magazine
In a new collection, Ilya Budraitskis provides a trenchant analysis of the ideological underpinnings of Putin’s Russia and the domestic political groups that have opposed his government.

'Women Talking’ Review: Sarah Polley’s Electric Drama Is an Urgent Vision of How To Remake Our World

David Ehrlich IndieWire
For God knows how long, the women of an isolated religious community have been drugged with cow tranquilizer and raped on a regular basis during the night. The women had been told they were being violated by ghosts, demons, or even Satan himself — punishment for their own improprieties. They believed that lie until two young girls saw one of the rapists as he left one night. The women of the colony, have 48 hours to decide what their future will be like. Will they leave or stay?