Sermon on the Mount 2024
As Minnesota poet Susan Cossette reminds us, watch out for prophets!
books
Burning Bush
Bookforum
How the early ’90s set the stage for America’s crooked present.
film
Blink Twice and the Problem With #MeToo Thrillers
The Guardian
Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut joins a microgenre of films, from Promising Young Woman to Don’t Worry Darling, that try – and mostly fail – to capture a difficult moment
food
Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2024/08/weekend-reading-soda-science/
This book reveals the work of the International Life Sciences Institute funded by Coca-Cola
tv
Pachinko, Apple TV+’s Unsung Hero, Makes a Remarkable Return
AV Club
Pachinko follows Sunja, a young Korean woman who immigrates to Japan in the late 1930s after marrying a Protestant minister. A mother of two in unfamiliar territory, she strives to take care of her family amid poverty, racism, and political turmoil.
books
The Con at the Core of the Republican Party
The New Republic
The conservative movement’s total abandonment of even the appearance of principles has been decades in the making.
food
An Entirely Serious Investigation Into Kamala Harris’s Cookbooks
Esquire Magazine
Harris’s passion for cooking is well-documented; the cookbook titles tell about the contours and range of her interest in the culinary arts. She values the restorative powers of cooking as part of a community; and she understands food as identity.
books
Little Fish, Big Fish and Bullies – a Review of Little Meena and the Big Swim
Portside
Though written for young children, the book addresses a serious subject of bullying, bullying that comes with a real consequence too many suffer: hunger. Usually in children’s literature, the hurt depicted when a character is mean is about feelings.
books
Meeting Labor’s Moment
Los Angeles Review of Books
In this new book, labor reporter and union organizer Nolan assesses today's labor movement in the United States and offers proposals aimed at helping it grow.
film
Prison Stands Between Fathers and Their Daughters in Poignant, Lovely Documentary
AV Club
A compassionate documentary told with elegiac brushstrokes, Daughters tracks the generational trauma of incarcerated fathers.
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