What’s in a Name?
Who is Jack Smith? asks the poet Carol Kanter. Cross your fingers. Is he the hero who shows that someone with a fancier name is not above the law? Look it up.
The Gender of Capital
LSE Review of Books
In this book, writes reviewer Sharma, the authors argue that despite supposed equality, women in all classes of society are economically disadvantaged with respect to their husbands, fathers, and brothers.
The Raw, the Cooked and the Hydrolysed
The Dark Mountain Project
Marketing departments inject Ultra-Processed Foods (UPFs) with stories ranging from the banal (a cereal box cartoon character) and aspirational (health promises), to the manipulative such as ads picturing fast food eating as the center of family life
Foundation Is Fixing the Trickiest Thing About the Asimov Books
Inverse
Isaac Asimov was a science fiction giant. But the Apple TV version of Foundation addresses one place the books fell short. Foundation is no longer just a boy’s club.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Arkansas poet Gerald Sloan reminds us that the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was no “act” but often lost to history and found again.
Poetry, Biography, and the Unknowable
Los Angeles Review of Books
These books offer two approaches to the life and work of Wheatley, who is a cornerstone figure of the U.S. and African American literary traditions.
Why Barbie Must Be Punished
The NewYorker
"She was flawless, something had to be wrong. I wanted to heal her, but I also needed her sick. I wanted to become Barbie, and I wanted to destroy her. I wanted her perfection, but I also wanted to punish her for being more perfect than I’d ever be."
WHO Releases Updated Guidelines on Defining Healthy Diets
The Nutrition Source
Harvard experts say most recommendations are well-supported, but guidance on total fat intake omits decades of evidence
Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation Production Staff File To Unionize
Polygon
The effort by Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation production staff filing to unionize was sparked by Warner Bros. recent reorganization
Poisoned Water
Mississippi poet Philip C. Kolin reminds us of the next imminent global disaster—bad water—and in some places it’s already here.
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