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food

Eat Less Beef. Eat More Ostrich?

Sarah Zhang The Atlantic
Ostrich is touted as a more sustainable red meat that tastes just like beef. The truth is, greenhouse-gas emissions from food are sensitive to the exact mode of production, which vary country to country, region to region, and even farm to farm. And any analysis is only as good as the quality of the data that go into it.

poetry

What Are You Looking At?

Carine Topal Pedestal Magazine
Poet Carine Topal finds resistance even in the most crushingly authoritarian society.

books

Tony Kahn: Boy Fugitive in the Cold War

Paul Buhle Portside
This is a poignant tale of remembering parents in trouble, careers dashed and of steady FBI harassment. The end is not happy, except that the boy survives and makes his own life as an admired cultural commentator on radio.

poetry

In Memory of the Forgotten

Suzanne Cleary The Odds
Poet Suzanne Cleary sneaks a peek into the production of art in a theocratic society.
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