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A Place Called Home
By Issie LapowskyDarfuri immigrants in Brooklyn yearn and fight for the devastated region they left behind
Letter from Senegal
By Michael BuschBeneath this half-completed section of highway overpass on the dusty outskirts of Dakar, Moussa spreads his arms widely and raises them to the concrete slab above his head
Dancing with the Master: The life and music of Manny Oquendo, 1931–2009
By Alan LockwoodOver fried pork chops one rainy April evening, at a Latin-Chinese restaurant at Broadway and 100th St., music producer Rene Lopez crystallized percussionist Manny Oquendo’s accomplishments.
Filmmaker As Socialist Anthologist
By Williams ColeChris Marker’s Grin Without A Cat (Le Fond de L’Air Est Rouge) My father was an anthologist who published dozens of volumes on themes as diverse as eroticism, plants and cats.
A Brief History of Violence
By James ArnettDavid Neiwert, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Racialized the American Right (Pollpoint Press)
Remembering Vonnegut
By Ben TraversLoree Rackstraw, Love As Always, Kurt: Vonnegut As I Knew Him (Da Capo Press)
Lopate's Sontag
By Jessica LoudisDavid Neiwert, Notes on Sontag (Princeton University Press)
Thatcher’s Leftovers
By Elizabeth MonaghanChris Killip, In Flagrante (Errata Editions)
A Glance Backward While Driving Over the Edge
By Anne PundykOwning a car is an American birthright. It is the personalization of American power, prosperity, and autonomy.
