Beautiful World, Where Are You
The Guardian
Rooney examines meaning, art, friendship, and the price of fame through the story of two couples.
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'Attica' Puts Audiences in the Middle of America’s Bloodiest Prison Uprising
Jacobin
The new Showtime documentary 'Attica' covers the 1971 Attica uprising. Award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson talks to Jacobin about the revolt and the state massacre that slaughtered prisoners and ended a movement for human dignity.
'It's not science fiction': New East Bay facility producing lab-grown meat plans to produce 400,000 pounds per year
San Francisco Chronicle
Upside Foods, which cannot yet legally sell its cultured meat, is ready to grow chicken for the masses, up to 400,000 pounds yearly.
Yellowstone Is One of TV’s Biggest Hits. What’s Yellowstone, Anyway?
Vox
Yellowstone is a ranch-set Succession, with murder, Kevin Costner, and red-state America’s blind spots.
The 84th Anniversary of the Spanish Civil War
Bitter Oleander
Simon Baena’s homage to the Spanish Republic reflects the continuing grief of the lost anti-fascist cause of the 1930s.
The PMC and Virtue Hoarding
Conter
Reviewer Foley discusses a new examination of the "professional managerial class." The book's publisher calls this book "an unapologetically polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits."
Did You Know That ‘Long Hours & Dangerous Conditions’ On The Frankenstein Sets Led Legendary Actor Boris Karloff To Get Behind The Movement To Unionize Screen Actors?
WNYLaborToday
Karloff Wasn’t The ‘Only One’ Who ‘Saw The Worth’ In Having a Union In The Workplace, Dracula Star Bela Lugosi Was Also ‘Pro-Union’ - Karloff & Lugosi Both Actively Organized Sets & Convincingly ‘Made the Case’ for Actors to ‘Go Union’
Figs: A Taste of Wonder
Orion Magazine
For more than nine thousand years, figs have been a keystone species, a critical component of the food web. Twelve hundred different kinds of animals depend on them.
Succession Turns a Box of Doughnuts Into a Stealthy Statement About Abuse
Vox
The Roy siblings are deeply haunted by their upbringing. Succession keeps finding ways to show that.
Driving Theory
Spoon River Poetry Review
The poet Andrew Hemmert finds himself “stationary and in a state of undress/ like a fountain statue” caught in a mess of environmental distress. How can a person move through this muddled world?
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