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food

Poverty and Deportees on the Streets in Tijuana

Photos by David Bacon and an Interview with Laura Velasco Dollars & Sense
People who are just dumped through the border gate find themselves in cities like Tijuana. Families get meals at the food distribution sites because they don’t have enough money to eat.

film

Bugonia Is Yorgos Lanthimos at His Best

Eileen Jones Jacobin
In Bugonia, Emma Stone plays a kidnapped pharmaceutical CEO trying to convince her deranged abductors that she’s not a sinister alien in disguise. As a portrait of our political impasse, it’s a shocking, wild ride with an ending you won’t see coming.

books

My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria

Viswesh Rammohan Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
Andrée Blouin was a significant figure in the early 1960s African liberation struggles. She is featured in Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, the 2024 documentary film about the events leading to Patrice Lumumba's assassination.

film

1960: The Year the Modern Horror Film Was Born

Eileen Jones Jacobin
A combination of the breakdown of the Hollywood studio system, the decline of censorship, and the rise of wildly — and luridly — creative filmmakers across the world looking to cash in on sex and violence made 1960 the year of the modern horror film.

poetry

Translating Myself for Gaza

Beau Beausoleil
West Coast poet Beau Beausoleil offers an apology to the many strangers he cannot save.

poetry

Message at the Shore

Gene Grabiner
Poet Gene Grabiner offers an allegory of our demented leadership.
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