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Overseers Everywhere—Still We Rise

Renée Feltz The Indypendent
In his new book, Steven Thrasher lays out his theory of the “phenomenon in which people from marginalized populations amass power not by uplifting people from the communities they come from, but by collectively cracking the of their own.”

Backrooms and Obsession Are Glimpses of a Better Hollywood

Eileen Jones Convergence
Two indie horror movies with YouTube origins, Obsession and Backrooms, crushed big-budget Star Wars and He-Man movies at the box office. But claims that these films represent a revival of cinematic creativity à la the New Hollywood era are overblown.

Everyone Loves the Knicks. Everyone Hates James Dolan.

Abdul Malik Convergence
The awful billionaire James Dolan’s stranglehold on one of sports’ greatest franchises is holding the New York Knicks back. The solution? Yes, that’s right: public ownership of the Knicks.

Winter Salmon Run

Lucille Lang Day
Poet Lucille Lang Day confronts the losses suffered by people and animals resulting from the colonization of California by Europeans.

New Conservatism, Culture Wars and the Western Tradition

Paul Kelly LSE Review of Books
This is a conservative defense of the Western Tradition against its progressive critics, the book a well-researched and engaging – if unmistakably political – narrative history of Western civilization.

At the Hotel Theresa

Gene Grabiner
Poet Gene Grabiner celebrates a moment when two giants of revolutionary politics met.