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Leaning In While Black

Can Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's manifesto speak to women of color?

Tamara Winfrey Harris

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Upstream Color Reinvents Cinema

We've seen the future of film, and it's incomprehensible.

Michael Atkinson

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Will the Real Betty Draper Please Stand Up?

In Mad Men's new season, we need the slap-in-the-face Betty back.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Suicide by Appointment

A soldier's story of living precariously with PTSD. And of a government unable to help him.

Richard Baker

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Zen and the Art of Corporate Overthrow

HBO's 'Enlightened' was the best send-up of capitalism on TV.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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No Self-Help Wanted

You are not the only thing holding you back.

Richard Greenwald

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Black and Bengali

A new book traces the hidden story of a mixed-race community.

Fatima Shaik

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Bigelow and the Boys Club

The Zero Dark Thirty director isn't Miss Congeniality.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Here’s to You, Mrs. Robeson

Barbara Ransby's new book shines the spotlight on Eslanda Robeson--activist, writer and yes, Paul Robeson's wife.

Eleanor J. Bader

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Guantanamo Declassified

Why did it take 12 years to bring the 9/11 conspirators to trial? A new book provides a withering look.

Peter C. Baker

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‘Forget About Morality’

Two Oscar-nominated documentaries present footage of Israel and Palestine you'll never see on network TV.

Michael Atkinson

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Eighty at Last

On Amour and pitying the elderly.

Jane Miller

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The Guts and the Gory

The Quentin Tarantino paradox.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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In Defense of Sports

Why let capitalists have all the fun?

Bhaskar Sunkara

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Scroungers and Strivers

We are encouraged to sneer at poverty and hardship.

Jane Miller

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Twilight of the Twi-Hards

The triumph of Team Katniss.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Catastrophiliacs

For some, the end of the world can't come too soon.

Sasha Lilley

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Blinded by Thrift Store Irony

It makes very little sense to characterize irony, strictly speaking, as a matter of self-presentation.

Chris Lehmann

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Fall of the Monarchs

Can we save North America’s most beloved butterfly?

Molly M. Ginty

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Swiftian Logic

The narcissistic non-feminism of pop 'princess' Taylor Swift.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Lincoln: Better Off Undead

Spielberg's new Lincoln doesn't hold a candle to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Louis Nayman

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The Ice Man, Radioactive

Harold Simmons: the GOP’s $50 million man.

Greg Palast

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Mothering Hypes

Jessica Valenti's new book debunks myths maternal.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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A Heathcliff We Haven’t Seen Before

Crafty casting turns Wuthering Heights into a love story haunted by the guilt and ghosts of slavery.

Michael Atkinson