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Lit

10 cult classics: Books on charismatic leaders to nourish your squint-eyed cynicism

Zack Ruskin - November 30, 2023

Popularity of follower docs aside, unraveling sects might be best as a book-length pursuit. Here are titles that take on the task.

News + Politics

After 60 years, the major media still won’t tell the truth about the JFK assassination

David Talbot - November 21, 2023

The evidence that top officials in the military and CIA killed the president is overwhelming—but The New York Times won't even run an oped about it.

Movies

Screen Grabs: ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ and the evolution of trans cinema

Dennis Harvey - November 12, 2023

1975 classic was rare sympathetic portrayal—now continued in new films 'Orlando, My Political Biography' and 'Biodome'

Editorial

Ceasefire now: Violence and oppression in the Middle East must end

48 Hills - October 24, 2023

Bombing and displacement must be halted. All people in the region must live freely. Collective punishment is no path to peace

Movies

Screen Grabs: Chronicle of a dark US chapter in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

Dennis Harvey - October 18, 2023

Scorsese's epic is a big Hollywood project done right. Plus: 'Silver Dollar Road' looks at another alarming injustice

News + Politics

The local record and legacy of Dianne Feinstein

Tim Redmond - October 2, 2023

Let's celebrate her accomplishments. But there's another story that needs to be told. I was there.

Lit

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

Crime

Among the drug traffickers you don’t hear about: The United States Border Patrol

Francisco Ugarte - July 18, 2023

The media loves to blame immigrants, while ignoring the fact that some of the people guarding the border are also working with the drug cartels.

Movies

Screen Grabs: Bodies on the line, from ‘Give Me an A’ to ‘A Woman Kills’

Dennis Harvey - June 26, 2023

Abortion shorts, drag liberation, intersex community, a woman-directed Spaghetti Western, The Boz, and Rock Hudson on screens.

Art

“Resting Our Eyes” taps the power of Black women in repose

Emily Wilson - June 20, 2023

Sadie Barnette, Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Lava Thomas, more pay homage to beauty and respite.

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10 cult classics: Books on charismatic leaders to nourish your squint-eyed cynicism

After 60 years, the major media still won’t tell the truth about the JFK assassination

Screen Grabs: ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ and the evolution of trans cinema

Ceasefire now: Violence and oppression in the Middle East must end

Screen Grabs: Chronicle of a dark US chapter in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

The local record and legacy of Dianne Feinstein

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

Among the drug traffickers you don’t hear about: The United States Border Patrol

Screen Grabs: Bodies on the line, from ‘Give Me an A’ to ‘A Woman Kills’

“Resting Our Eyes” taps the power of Black women in repose

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