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Why Cookbooks Are the Next Frontier for Narrative Writing

Emmeline Clein
What is it about cookbooks that lend themselves so fluidly to self-reflection and experimentation alike? As Hannah Goldfield puts it, the form “evinces something encouraging: a curiosity about how other people live, the texture of their days.”

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Promoting Well-Being With Healthy Community Stores

Susan Kelley Cornell Chronicle
Since 2018, the Healthy Community Store Initiative (HCSI) has encouraged the owners of local stores to stock healthy options in Buffalo’s food deserts, while educating customers on the benefits of eating healthful foods, checking one’s blood pressur

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Outcome Is Jonah Hill’s Inept Hollywood Satire

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Jonah Hill’s new Apple TV Hollywood satire, Outcome, wants to skewer celebrity culture. But even with the likable Keanu Reeves, its muddled script and self‑pitying subtext reveal more about the industry’s narcissism than the film ever intended.

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Young Communists Grow Older

Paul Buhle CounterPunch
This new book, the first of a projected three-volume history, is "the first by activists who grew up, so to speak, within, around, and just beyond the orbit of the CPUSA," writes reviewer Buhle.

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Fantasy Dismantled

Amany Alsiefy Los Angeles Review of Books
Saïd Khatibi’s ‘The End of the Sahara,’ the first Algerian crime novel translated from Arabic by Bitter Lemon Press, potently critiques Orientalist fantasies of desert romance.

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Wallace Shawn’s Road to Socialism

Annie Levin Jacobin
The left-wing actor and playwright Wallace Shawn, currently in two plays in New York, describes a harsh midlife conversion to class politics — transforming from a disengaged liberal to someone who sees himself as “a participant in the world struggle.
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