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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).

Seafood Is Getting Riskier To Eat Due to Climate Change

Stacey Leasca Food & Wine
High heat can make seafood more dangerous for human consumption.
Both the European Food Safety Authority the U.S. Department of Agriculture warn that increasing sea surface temperatures can expand the range and season of Vibrio infections making seafood potentially more dangerous for human consumption.

Laughter

Joanne Durham New Verse News
“You can tell a lot by a laugh,” said a certain Republican politician, and a laugh may set you free!

Burning Bush

Gene Seymour Bookforum
How the early ’90s set the stage for America’s crooked present.

Blink Twice and the Problem With #MeToo Thrillers

Adrian Horton The Guardian
Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut joins a microgenre of films, from Promising Young Woman to Don’t Worry Darling, that try – and mostly fail – to capture a difficult moment