New Left Memories
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Two new memoirs portray the activist left over the last half-century.
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Interview with John Sayles: "If They Can Do It by Busting a Union, They’ll Do It”
Slate
John Sayles on his labor-uprising masterpiece Matewan, as it enters the Criterion Collection.
The Festival Industrial Complex: How food festivals hurt the chefs they’re meant to help
LA Times
Food festivals are more popular and more elaborate than ever, but what’s not apparent to ticket buyers is that their growth has often been at the expense of the restaurants and chefs they’re supposed to promote.
Netflix To Bargain With IATSE For First Companywide Film & TV Contract
Deadline
Netflix has agreed to negotiate a first companywide contract with IATSE, the union representing the industry’s below-the-line workers.
The Burying Ground
Weight of Bodily Touches
An encounter with the mutilated statue of a freed slave leads the California poet Joseph Zaccardi to consider the names of those left nameless.
Renewing the Legacy of Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui
Portside
A review of the first English-language biography of one of Latin America’s most important, innovative, and enduringly relevant, Marxist thinkers.
Rethinking U.S. Election Law
LSE Review of Books
This is an excellent and engaging read that exposes the structural flaws in the US government system and provides tangible, achievable proposals to address them, writes reviewer Frazier.
‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Dark Nights, Troubled Souls, Hairy Men
The New York Times
Based on the famously unfinished short story by Edgar Allan Poe, the filmmaker conjures madness and dread for this period piece about two lighthouse keepers' inner and outer darkness.
The Saccharine History of Candy Corn
National Geographic
Halloween has a centuries’-long tradition of costumes and scary stuff, but the door-to-door visitations for collecting candy started after the end of WWII sugar rationing, in the late 1940s.
Rachel Maddow And Time's Up Both Slam NBC For Its Treatment Of Sexual Harassment Issues
AV Club
The organizers of Time’s Up have called upon NBC to state that people are allowed to talk about their experiences freely, regardless of any past NDAs.
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