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LISTEN: Andrew Cuomo Says Cities Are in Trouble in a ‘Post-Covid World’

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The former governor won’t say if he voted for Letitia James, but he’s got lots to say about how the Democratic Party has lost the script on crime as he says people tell him they “are afraid of the feeling I get in the city,” and much more.

From FAQ NYC
On November 6, 2022

NONCOMPLIANT HEART

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Writer Wendy C. Ortiz traces the development of her rebellious spirit and schools us in fascism’s ties to the Pledge of Allegiance.

From Tasteful Rude
On November 6, 2022
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The Nigeria Prize 2022: Garlands for New Blood

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If it wasn’t obvious enough that the leading poetic voices on the continent now belong to a new generation of writers bred in the jungles of the internet and raised in the angst of 21st-century dilemmas and preoccupations, the new NLNG prize shortlist has made it clearer.

From Olongo Africa
On November 6, 2022
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“Mountain Woman” Depicts Human Cruelty and Desperation in a Japanese Village

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With its story about an outcast family, “Mountain Woman” explores humanity’s darkness against a beautiful backdrop of Japan’s countryside

From No Man Is an Island
On November 4, 2022
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HOLDING LIFE LIGHTLY: CRYBABY WILL DRY OUR TEARS

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Miah Jeffra reviews Cheryl Klein's fertility and cancer memoir "Crybaby", an exploration of cancer, fertility, eating disorder, queer desire, and the self.

From Tasteful Rude
On October 14, 2022
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Taiwan’s Founding Mothers?: Untold Herstory

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If America needs more 1619 stories than it does 1776 ones, then Taiwan needs more stories about 228 and the White Terror.

From No Man Is an Island
On October 11, 2022
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‘Same As It Always Is’—Manny Kirchheimer’s New York, and His Pandemic Time Warp

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“New York is so rich, and I couldn’t afford to travel so New York became my movie set.”

From FAQ NYC
On October 9, 2022
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Mediaquake: The Long View of Media Reform

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A Q+A with Carla Murphy, Rutgers University

From Popula
On October 10, 2022
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The Cross-Straits Politics of Global Panda Health

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Tuan Tuan, one of four giant pandas displayed in the Taipei Zoo, has become ill with brain lesions.

From No Man Is an Island
On October 7, 2022
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Michigan Ballot Measure Would Finally Bring Financial Disclosures—and Weaker Term Limits

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Proposal 1 would make more than 300 term-limited politicians in Michigan once again eligible to run for office.

From Sludge
On October 7, 2022
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LEARNING TO THROW AXES

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Horrified by the overturning of Roe v Wade, a Latina consoles herself with a re-imagining of Medusa and axes.

From Tasteful Rude
On October 8, 2022
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Saddiq Dzukogi’s Poetics of Grief

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Martin Heidegger in The Origin of the Work of Art describes language as “home of being.” He also describes poetry as a form with powers to disclose “being.”

From Olongo Africa
On October 7, 2022
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Our Haunted Apartment in Montreal

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twenty years on, the author reflects on being trapped in a vortex of dark energy

From Popula
On October 5, 2022
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