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Backrooms and Obsession Are Glimpses of a Better Hollywood

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Two indie horror movies with YouTube origins, Obsession and Backrooms, crushed big-budget Star Wars and He-Man movies at the box office. But claims that these films represent a revival of cinematic creativity à la the New Hollywood era are overblown.

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Everyone Loves the Knicks. Everyone Hates James Dolan.

Abdul Malik Jacobin
The awful billionaire James Dolan’s stranglehold on one of sports’ greatest franchises is holding the New York Knicks back. The solution? Yes, that’s right: public ownership of the Knicks.

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New Conservatism, Culture Wars and the Western Tradition

Paul Kelly LSE Review of Books
This is a conservative defense of the Western Tradition against its progressive critics, the book a well-researched and engaging – if unmistakably political – narrative history of Western civilization.

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Janie

Mary Ann Castle
Drawing on her many years working in human rights and public health, poet Mary Ann Castle offers a portrait of a woman whose homelessness is a form of suffering but also an occasion of enlightenment.

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& 3000 Miles to the East

William Berkowitz
On the hundredth birthday of Allen Ginsberg, poet William Berkowitz reminds us that before there was the poet who wrote HOWL, there was his father, Louis Ginsberg, the poet who wrote the poet who wrote HOWL.
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