Culture
‘La Cocina’: A slice of life inside a frenetic New York restaurant kitchen
January 25, 2024As sometimes happens when you dine out at a much-touted eating venue, the results are not always 100% satisfying. And I’m afraid that was my take-out from La Cocina.
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‘This Chain’ album by George Mann celebrates the radical minstrel tradition
January 24, 2024George is one Mann on a mission—to remind his listeners of the rich vein of human solidarity that runs through our musical songbook, and to which he belongs.
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‘Poor Things’: Don’t start the Revolution without me!
January 24, 2024Could it be that the very best film of 2023 is actually a sexual and revolutionary tract?!
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Albert Maltz’s long-suppressed civil rights novel is rediscovered—and still relevant
January 23, 2024A Long Day in a Short Life, just released in a beautiful new paperback edition by Alma Books, is available for the first time since 1957. You’ve probably never heard of it.
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‘Hippie Faggot Freak’: Memoir of a pathetic youth and emerging gay liberation
January 22, 2024Dale Mitchell’s lengthy account of his first 21 years is intermittently rewarding, but it is a slog demanding much patience.
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