Culture
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Playing the Gringo Wild Card
Chesa Boudin’s Latin American diaries.
Brittany Shoot
Culture
Old War on New Deal
The new book Invisible Hands reveals how quickly conservatives organized to challenge New Deal liberalism.
Alexander Gourse
Culture
Building Utopia
A new documentary profiles the rise and fall of a Depression-era utopian experiment in the Bronx.
Joel Bleifuss
Culture
No Sugar-Coating Immigration
A new film will enthrall baseball fans--and anyone fascinated by the endurance of American ideals.
Brandon Harris
Culture
Romancing the Terrorists
The Baader Meinhof Complex glamorizes a Cold War-era German terrorist group without questioning its politics and violence.
Christina Gerhardt
Culture
Iran’s History Comes Out
A new book brilliantly details the evolution of gender and sexuality from pre-modern Persia to the 20th century.
Doug Ireland
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From Russia With Mercy
12 is a stunning revision of a classic American film.
Ralph Seliger
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The Big Other
A giant stalks the literary landscape.
Achy Obejas
Culture
Always Look on the Bright Side of Genocide
When did the Holocaust become morally ambiguous?
Michael Atkinson
Culture
A Real-Life Fairytale
Chris and Don examines a love that dared to speak its name.
Gary Barlow
Culture
War Without Warriors
Robots have the perverse side effect of making war seem easy.
Chris Barsanti
Culture
Watching The Watchers
Mass Observation returns for the Obama inauguration.
Brian Cook
Culture
Not All Happy Families Are Nuclear
A new book chronicles experiments in domesticity.
Mandy Van Deven
Culture
Won’t Get Fooled Again
(Well … maybe just one more time.)
Brian Cook
Culture
In Mexico, Resistance is Futile
John Gibler chronicles a country embattled, but not conquered.
Kari Lydersen
Culture
A Massacre in 3/4 Time
Waltz with Bashir is hallucinatory, relentless, and amazing.
Michael Atkinson
Culture
Che the Man, Not the T-shirt
Soderbergh’s Che refuses to typecast the revolutionary.
Ben Kenigsberg
Culture
The Truth Machine
Detecting lies or setting the stage for abuse?
Peter Kavanagh
Culture
Jim Crow in the North
A new history examines the struggle to integrate above the Mason-Dixon Line.
Lewis M. Steel
Culture
Live Chat—Resistance Now!
Palestinian struggle goes viral
Michelle Chen
Culture
It’s Not Easy Becoming Green
Van Jones lays out his plan for a green economy
David Roberts
Culture
See Dick Squirm
New documentary chronicles legendary 1977 Frost/Nixon interviews
Kevin Canfield
Culture
Inside the Shadow Factory
James Bamford's important new book details America's post-9/11 surveillance-industrial complex
Brian Beutler
Culture
Operation Infinite Imperialism
Two recent books examine America’s military and diplomatic forays into South and Central Asia.
Robert S. Eshelman
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