The Wall (running the changes)
New York poet Philip Fried traces the evolution of THE WALL, “the quintessential barrier/for keeping the future out and the past in.”
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Why the Working Class Matters
LA Progressive
With the rise of popular interest in socialism, this book goes beyond promoting efforts boosting needed protective legislation and improved social welfare for working people to look globally at struggles against capital and strategies for winning.
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Portside
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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
New York Journal of Books
Kai-Fu Lee is a venture capitalist from China whose new book surveys the impact and future of Artificial Intelligence on his society as well its prospects in Western countries. Reviewer Atkinson offers a mixed assessment.
Shoplifters Review – Kore-eda's Audacious Latest Steals the Heart
The Guardian
Hirokazu Kore-eda's Palme d’Or-winning drama about a Japanese family of crooks who lift a lost little girl from the streets is a satisfying and devastating gem.
Meat grown from cells: companies clamour to put it on your plate
The Conversation
Meat grown in vats, grown from the cells of animals, may be the next course on the menu.
'Tidying Up with Marie Kondo' Is Inadvertently About Women's Invisible Labor
Vice
In the new Netflix show, couples learn how to tackle household tasks by 'tidying' together, a process that reveals just how gendered our domestic expectations are.
The Man Who Came Back
Spillway
The casualties of a seemingly invisible war are brought home in J. L. L. Kroll’s poem about a single veteran.
Damn It All: A Meditation on Hell
New York Review of Books
Charting the origins of the Christian idea of a vast underground realm where the souls of sinners were hauled to suffer eternal punishments by fiends, the author walks readers through a panoply of sadistic fantasies long considered revealed truths.
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