This pendulum swing from the sort of diversity-focused art that dominated pop culture during the Obama years to what we’re seeing now is hardly unprecedented.
Watching Errol Morris‘s urgent documentary on Family Separation will raise your blood pressure considerably as it questions: How is it that we forgot about this shocking inhumanity so quickly?
Poet Marie Howe shows us the frightening consequences of "what we did to the earth."
This book chronicles the World War II-Cold War-era program that encouraged private pen pal correspondence between women in the USA and the Soviet Union, an initiative that fell victim to the rancorous politics of the era.
In the shadow of 9/11, poet Ruben Quesada shows us the destructiveness and death that come with "progress."
New research argues that after peaches were introduced by Europeans, they spread across the eastern U.S. with the help of Indigenous peoples who structured the ecology and the land to be appropriate for peaches to grow and they tended the plants.
McQueen makes a point of integrating into the film what is rarely seen in movies of this sort: a sharp depiction of racism among Londoners, the enraging sort that has so calcified it still surfaces when people are just trying to survive.
As we approach Trump's second inauguration, poet Alison Luterman asks if the patient will survive? The patient is us, the American people.
This review is 20 years old, but it is nevertheless especially relevant to the United States at this political moment.
Poet Elizabeth Scanlon asks "what is this a culture of," and finds the usual answers wanting, leaving it up to the rest of us to make better choices.
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