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poetry

Holes

W.D. Ehrhart
Among the many things the USA left behind in Vietnam, besides pride, remains safely underground.

poetry

Our Revels

Donna Pucciani
“And now we mourn the temperate days,” writes Chicago poet Donna Pucciani, as the news of weather is seldom good.

books

A Newly Translated Novel Captures the Tragedy of Greek Communism

Tadhg Larabee Jacobin
Written in 1972, during Greece’s military junta, leftist Marios Chakkas’s recently translated novel The Commune is a mournful testament from a world where the stakes of politics were communism or fascism, democracy or dictatorship.

food

Fighting To Keep Milk a Household — but Not Plant-Based — Name

John McCracken Ambrook Research
Plant-based milk products such as almond milk have reached over $3 billion in annual domestic sales. The dairy industry — and the politicians who support it — want to stop producers from labeling almond, soy, and oat milk as “milk."

books

The Bund: A Graphic History of Jewish Labour Resistance

Henry Chamberlain Comic's Grinder
"The Bund was a phenomenal uprising of people doing the right thing at a critical time when it was needed most...Think of The Bund as a coalition, a movement, people power at its best."
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