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In ‘The End of the Myth,’ Greg Grandin Explores America’s Inner War From Its Outer Edges
As indicated by its title, historian Greg Grandin’s The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border…
Diaper Change, Climate Change: Reflections on Parenting in an Era of Global Warming
Just as I took off his diaper, my son shit again. It happens. But he focused and pumped out…
After An Uprising: New Exhibition Highlights Queer Art Post-Stonewall
“Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall,” now showing at the Brooklyn Museum, seems like a direct…
Gay Old Brooklyn: Hugh Ryan Takes a Look at the Borough’s Queer Past
Hugh Ryan got the idea to write When Brooklyn Was Queer when he held pop-up queer history exhibit parties…
A Poet Recounts Teaching at Men’s Prisons in ‘Hummingbird’
From 1992 to 2008, award-winning poet and playwright Deborah Tobola taught writing to inmates at several men’s prisons in…
Oral History Preserves Bushwick One Story at a Time
At an April Community Board 4 meeting in Bushwick, city planners were repeatedly interrupted by the audience. “Affordable to…
Activist Scholars Take on Big Developers
Hudson Yards, New York City’s newest neighborhood, costing the city 5.6 billion taxpayer dollars, opened March 15. Who asked…
Lessons on Grassroots Campaigning from ‘Councilwoman’
Carmen Castillo is a housekeeper. A Dominican immigrant, she is raising three kids and lives in an impoverished neighborhood…
‘American Woman’ and More From the Tribeca Film Fest
American Woman, directed by Semi Chellas The Patty Hearst story is an odd, murky chapter in recent U.S. history,…