Foods With Misleading Names
The Browser
From Mongolian barbecue to Russian dressing, you can’t tell a food’s origin by its name.
film
‘Prayers for the Stolen’ Review: A Ferrante-Like Fable About Mexico’s Missing Girls
IndieWire
“Prayers for the Stolen” shines a much-needed light on the consequences of Mexico’s war on drugs, specifically highlighting the plight of the nation’s women and girls. The film is a contender for an Oscar for best International Film.
tv
Yellowstone: The Smash-Hit TV Show That Exposed A Cultural Divide
The Guardian
The Kevin Costner-led drama "Yellowstone" is the most popular show on cable but has been mostly ignored by critics
books
Das Kapital in Kiswahili
Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Dr. Joachim Mwami, a retired professor of sociology at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, began translating Capital into Kiswahili, the language spoken by roughly 100 million people across East Africa.
books
We All Live in the John Birch Society’s World Now
The New Republic
In his lifetime, Robert Welch toiled in the mocked and marginal fringe. Today his ideas are the mainstream of the American right.
food
Food and Culture
JSTOR
Food is complicated. That creation you love from “The Great British Baking Show? It’s been the subject of arguments over culture, identity and copyright.
poetry
Small Kindnesses
Healing the Divide
As plague years continue, California poet Danusha Laméris writes of “brief moments of exchange” that sustain hope and belief in what is holy.
poetry
Once Upon A Time
Bay Area poet Fred Norman, a dedicated pacifist in Veterans for Peace, died on December 30. His anti-war poetry lives on.
tv
Civil Rights Activist Mamie Till-Mobley Takes Center Stage In the Timely Women Of the Movement
AV Club
Though the ABC limited series is gripping, it drifts too often from Mamie Till-Mobley's point of view
books
Is a Civil War Ahead?
The New Yorker
A year after the attack on the Capitol, the country is suspended between democracy and autocracy. That sense of uncertainty radically heightens the likelihood of episodic bloodletting in America, and even the risk of civil war.
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