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‘Weed’ sparks up candid cannabis education for young people—and the rest of us

Marke B. - September 10, 2023

Caitlin Donohue's latest book for teens takes a big picture view of cannabis policy and culture in the Americas

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The Shortish Project celebrates mighty impact of tiny tomes

Lou Fancher - August 29, 2023

Outpost19's lit database and publishing platform features 600 novellas by star and rising authors alike.

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Shipwrecks and scurvy: ‘The Wager’ reveals human frailty beneath European colonialism

Lou Fancher - August 23, 2023

Novelist David Grann's tale of 18th-century maritime disaster adds to his record of relentless truth-telling, rats and all

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In ‘Leaning Toward Light,’ tending to life through a garden of poems

Marke B. - August 22, 2023

Tess Taylor's anthology gathers verse giants and local greenhorns, recipes and short essays into an almanac of living

Drug policy

The myth of drug cartels is a cover for state-sanctioned violence

Caitlin Donohue - August 11, 2023

Author Oswaldo Zavala says the way we think about Mexican narcos is all wrong

Books

Lonesome tonight? ‘Belonging’ offers isolation’s history and its practical fixes

Lou Fancher - July 25, 2023

Professor Geoffrey L. Cohen's deeply researched book is perfect for when your stage is bare

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The great Green Arcade bookstore is closing

Marke B. - July 19, 2023

Patrick Marks' literary center of progressive politics and radical writing shuts Sun/23. Go visit one last time.

Movies

Screen Grabs: The campus rebels who kept film culture alive

Dennis Harvey - July 18, 2023

A new book details Ann Arbor's essential cinema underground. Plus: Soviet director Yuliya Solntseva gets her due, more

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In endless US wars, some people matter, and some people don’t

Tim Redmond - July 12, 2023

Author Norman Solomon talks about the human toll of the military machine—and why we so rarely hear about it.

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In ‘Pedro & Daniel’ and ‘Gordo,’ cracking open the young queer Mexican American experience

Emily Wilson - July 4, 2023

Two books set in the '70s detail the lives of young boys—two brothers and a farmworkers' son—vividly and loving

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