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Beautiful World, Where Are You

Anne Enright The Guardian
Rooney examines meaning, art, friendship, and the price of fame through the story of two couples.

poetry

Return to the White Chrysanthemums

Esther Kamkar
Esther Kamkar writes political poetry indirectly, taking us back to the unforgettable images of the death of a child trying to cross the Rio Grande.

poetry

Under Subpoena

Michel Steven Krug New Verse News
Minneapolis poet/lawyer Michel Steven Krug captures the uneasy mood of these political times, the degradation of democracy, its vulnerability.

books

The PMC and Virtue Hoarding

James Foley 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."

food

Figs: A Taste of Wonder

Aimee Nezhukumatathil 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.
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