Eternal Recurrence
American Poetry Review
“what’s so neo/about neo-nazis,” asks the poet Deborah Landau. And maybe it’s time to do something!
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How The Purge Intricately Explores Black Female Rage
The Week
Rather than focusing on violence by white citizens, this time around one of the killers is a black woman, whose rage is just as lethal as her white counterparts' — and it's aimed directly at everything they represent.
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From Academia to Art School: An 'Old Black Woman' Starts Anew
Truthdig
Renowned social historian and scholar Nell Painter went back to school to study art after retiring from her tenured professorship. This book is the story of how she found herself anew, and what the search can teach the rest of us.
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Dead-End Lives: Drugs and Violence in the Shadow of Madrid
Counterfire
A study of poverty and drug addiction in the slums outside Madrid reveals the callous and destructive nature of the neoliberal city.
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Where Hands Touch Can't Make a Nazi Love Story Work
Jezebel
Where Hands Touch focuses so much on the idea that love can traverse any boundary that it forgets there’s no love strong enough to bridge a genocide.
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The Cartoon That Captures the Damaged American Male
The Atlantic
Rick and Morty is a dialectic of masculinity unmoored.
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Archaeologists find earliest evidence of bread
The Guardian
Bread "crumbs" found in fireplaces used by hunter-gatherers 14,000 years ago predate agriculture by thousands of years
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John Rawls, Socialist?
Jacobin
The author of this book, writes reviewer Quish, "makes a powerful case for a 'socialist constitutionalism' that deserves a place in contemporary debates on the Left."
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Bob Woodward’s Dragnet Descends on Donald Trump
The Guardian
Woodward, one of the two Washington Post city reporters who broke the Watergate story that led to bringing down a president has written another sober, must-read dissection of corruption and rot at the White House.
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Michael Moore’s New Movie Is a Much-Needed Punch to the Gut
Slate
Farenheit 11/9's strongest sections cede the floor to the progressive activists and insurgent political figures whom he paints as the country’s best, and perhaps last, hope for salvation.
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