This urgently current volume will be widely discussed in the months ahead, with another important book on the same subject, appearing last Fall: Peter Beinart’s Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza.
Trevor Jackson traces the “dumb, inhuman logic” of endless growth over hundreds of years, and gestures at a better world.
Barbara Kopple’s films Harlan County USA and American Dream captured labor struggle as it was happening: on picket lines, inside unions, and under pressure. Decades later, both remain some of the finest labor documentaries ever made.
Criterion Channel is hosting a retrospective on Hollywood’s “corporate thrillers” from the 1980s through the early 2000s. If anything, their message about the capitalist rot in America’s institutions looks far too tame for how the last couple of deca
This book, says reviewer Silverstein, "is written for this moment. More than translating Bundist theory from Yiddish," he adds, author Crabapple "puts it into the language of today’s left."
Deep in desiccated Southern groves, the powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal, unrelenting decline. No one wants to face what that means.
All you need to know about Andy Serkis' absurd adaptation is that it starts with a barnyard rap.
A heated online discourse about Dr. Samira Mohan's departure only scratches the surface of a bigger issue.
This study of the life and work of a leading exponent in Europe of freely improvised jazz, writes reviewer Shukaitis, argues that its subject's music "must be understood through the prism of revolutionary politics."
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