A Guide for Activists in “READ THIS When Things Fall Apart”
READ THIS When Things Fall Apart provides a place for activists new and old to find comfort and wisdom.
The Indypendent
Eleanor Bader
Book Review: Power-Hungry Christian Nationalists
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America
Book Review: Playing Sports on Stolen Land
For queer Aboriginal Australian soccer player Ellen van Neerven, sports is both a source of joy and a magnet for racism, sexism and homophobia.
Book Review: An Art School Homework Assignment Gone Terribly Wrong
Two students become lovers. One of them commits suicide the next day, and the other is left to deal with the cloud that hangs over their lives for many years afterward.
‘The Book of Old Ladies’ Gives Them Their Due
“Older women are almost never the ones whose story matters,” Ruth O. Saxton writes in the Introduction to The…
My Ankle Monitor Won’t Let Me Take Out The Garbage
While we live under “house arrest” amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s a good time to revisit what the real thing is like.
What To Watch: ‘About a Teacher’ Explores the Struggles of a Public School Instructor & His Students
For decades, teaching has been considered the fallback of the inept. After all, the old chestnut, “Those who can,…
Hope Rises From Climate Disaster in ‘Other Than We’ at La MaMa
Albert Einstein is credited with saying that great opportunities lie in the midst of calamity. Award-winning playwright Karen Malpede…
A Parisian Present Intrudes on a Long Island Past in Mary Fleming’s ‘Art of Regret’
At the start of Mary Fleming’s insightful second novel, The Art of Regret, Paris resident Trevor McFarquhar is something…
At first glance, the Novotny-Clissold family, protagonists of Julie E. Justicz’s Degrees of Difficulty, seem pretty garden variety: white…