How to Rap with a Sword: milo, Rapitalism, and Feeding Hunger with Thingness
Few of us devote much time to thinking about what a lifetime of labor is, especially creative labor. Milo is the kind of artist who invites us to think about it.
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Anthony Bourdain: Motor City Wannabe
Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain traveled the world, but his heart was in Motown.
What Are You So Damned Happy About?
Daniel Horowitz's Happier? tells the story of how happiness became such a hot topic, and it shows us — at least in part — why that is such a problem.
Losing the Narrative of Your Life: On Alissa Quart’s ’Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America’
Alissa Quart's perspective-driven reporting on the struggles of middle-class working families addresses the results of America's utterly depraved neoliberal capitalist state.
The Rationality of Violence: The Kerner Commission and the Riots of 1967
Separate and Unequal provides a riveting account of a crucial moment in US history. It offers a penetrating insight into the manner in which good intentions and just causes necessarily confront the mechanisms of governmental bureaucracy.
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“Pounding Humility into You Permanently”: On Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain was loved not for his wit or charming temerity, but for confronting us with our own alienation and cultural isolation.
Why Arthur Miller and Saul Bellow’s Doomed American Heroes Are Timeless
Perpetual "losers" Willy Loman and Tommy Wilhelm bitterly struggle to survive amidst the same economic and social forces that continue to challenge their real-world counterparts today.
Poetry and Economics in ‘Everything is Broken Up and Dances’
A passionate first-hand account from two Italian writers depicts the ravages of neoliberal capitalism in poignant, poetic prose.
Without a Net’s Memoirs of Poverty in America Will Haunt You. Let It.
These women are not simply simulating scenes of poverty for the reader; they experienced it and now they own it as one constant facet of their diverse identities.
“The Marketplace Is a Greater Democracy Than the Political Arena”
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man may be the most important book of 2016, since reading it is like getting a top secret state department debriefing on world affairs.
