Graffiti
Rattle
Colorado poet Josh Lefkowitz reads the writing on the wall, asking what it means.
poetry
No Regrets
The poet W.D. Ehrhart, veteran of both the Marines and Vietnam Veterans Against the War asks seriously, how can people like Henry Kissinger claim a lifetime of “no regrets”?
books
Books Bob Dylan’s the Philosophy of Modern Song
Brooklyn Rail
Dylan, writes reviewer Foye of this new coffee table-size book, "is sweeping out the ashes from the cave of a long career. He is casting a light on the Jungian shadows of popular song, examining both mechanics and metaphysics."
film
Law of Tehran Review – Gritty Iranian Crime Thriller Takes No Prisoners
The Guardian
Iranian American screen polymath Payman Maadi (who made such an impact in films such as Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation) is Samad, a cop waging an apparently unwinnable war on drugs in the Iranian capital. Having rounded up a vast community of addicts living and dying within a hellscape of giant concrete pipes, Samad and his deputy, Hamid (Houman Kiai), treat their captives like cattle, stripping and humiliating them, herding them from one overcrowded prison space to the next.
food
Alon Shaya Is Cooking for Connection
Broken Palate
Alon Shaya believes food can help people connect; sharing a meal is a powerful tool against the rising hate against Jewish people and everyone else. “Through cooking, you can share these stories with the goal of stopping prejudice and ending hate."
tv
Kneecapping ‘A League of Their Own’ With a Four-Episode Final Season Sucks
Jezebel
Amazon's remake of Penny Marshall's classic movie is an exploration of sexuality, friendship, and baseball. It deserves more than just a four-episode wrap-up.
books
Staughton Lynd: The Perils of Sainthood
Portside
Staughton Lynd seemed like a personal force almost more than a person within the antiwar movement of the 1960s. My Country Is the World largely and usefully recounts the controversies that came with his rise in the peace movement of the middle 1960s
books
The Untold Story of Capitalism
Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
This book, writes reviewer Wendland-Liu, shifts the geographic focus of "origins of capitalism" debates from Europe "to the motion, spaces, circuits and conflicts in multiple global sites and stages of economic production relations."
food
The Workers Behind Two Popular Food Network Shows Are Unionizing
Eater
Writers, producers, stylists, and other workers on “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen” and “The Kitchen” are forming a union with the Writers Guild of America, East
film
Thelonius Monk - The Fraught Dance Between Artist and Interviewer in “Rewind & Play"
The New Yorker
A new documentary by Alain Gomis turns footage from an interview with Thelonious Monk into a commentary on the submerged violence of the star-making process.
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