The Indypendent
Eleanor J. Bader
Book Review: Love, Real Estate and a Small Town on Edge
In Celine Keating’s third novel, Montauk is the setting for a multi-sided battle over the future of a pristine parcel of land.
Straight Talk About the Pain of Poverty
New book features 50-plus essays that bring personal experiences with penury into sharp focus.
Life Before Disability Justice
Debbie Chein recounts the story of her disabled twin sister and how her family’s decision to not institutionalize her both enriched and complicated their lives.
How the Care Economy Became So Warped and What We Can Do About It
Robust, publicly-funded programs are what we need, not voluntary initiatives.
How to Fight for Radical Change and Never Burn Out
Anyone who has done community organizing knows that there are no formulas for successful resistance. At the same time,…
When the Welfare Rights Movement Was a Powerful Force for Uplifting the Poor
The War on Poverty comes to life in a new book that explores how welfare mothers in Las Vegas built an organizing juggernaut that transformed lives.
Making a Life After the Holocaust
In Edith Bruck’s fictionalized memoir, five Hungarian Jewish siblings are reunited at the end of World War II but struggle with how to move forward in their lives.
New Film on Statue Controversies Is a Monumental Achievement
Stonebreakers is effective not only because it packs a powerful punch, but because it elevates the nuances of the issue.
In Karen Malpede’s latest play, the characters from Euripedes’ The Trojan Women invite us to interrogate the calamities we have lived through in recent years and how they have affected us.