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Can You Go Broke Eating Fruit?

Ethan Freedman Ambrook Research
Some produce purveyors offer exorbitantly priced fruit and claim unparalleled quality — but are we mostly paying for a status symbol?

Counting the Dead

Susan Cossette New Verse News
Minnesota poet Susan Cossette addresses the ultimate misogyny—“Faceless, nameless shadows…/Now, we matter more in death.”

America’s War on Theater

Daniel Blank Los Angeles Review of Books
Between 1935 and 1939, the New Deal-sponsored Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions nationwide, reaching an audience of 30 million. It was an early target of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC).