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How Cities Can Transform Democracy

Charlotte Cator LSE Review of Books
This study of "of the political meaning of the city under global urbanisation," writes reviewer Cator, is particularly timely "in light of ongoing global housing struggles and a widespread surge in the cost of living."

food

In the Shopping Cart

Lena Beck Modern Farmer
A short guide to commonly diluted, adulterated and/or fraudulent foods.

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.

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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.
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