Book Review
‘Maelstrom Over the Killing Fields’: Dire underdevelopment and the Filipino national idea
August 9, 2022It explores another primary focus of San Juan’s work: the literary struggle to develop a national popular Filipino consciousness under the duress of U.S. neocolonialism.
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‘Start from the heart’: Black photographer Adger Cowans, life and times
August 2, 2022Given the Jim Crow era in which Cowans grew up and matured, “I took all that racism and rejection and everything,” he said, “and I put it in my work."
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Baseball—and baseball books—are back!
May 24, 2022Now that what used to be called “Our National Pastime” is back, it’s time to look at several recently published books about the game.
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‘The Future We Need’: A new book by Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta
May 5, 2022With the union organizing wave sweeping the country, topics like class struggle and labor militancy are back on people's minds.
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L.A.’s Dodger Stadium should not exist!
April 1, 2022“The story of Dodger Stadium has been condensed and mythologized. It has become—with good reason—like a fable. The real history is less like a fable and more like the story of a crime that Los Angeles...
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