How They Treat Us
November 06, 2019
In the NHS, black women and migrants still struggle to access adequate care
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Reactionary GIFs
November 05, 2019
When a sitcom boy becomes an action man
Making Waves
Vulnerable workers from Boston to Wisconsin push back against impossible conditions
Fresh Hell
November 01, 2019
Blessed Are Those Who Pay No Taxes
Mods!
Gatekeepers won’t save us
Factory Blues
October 29, 2019
It’s not quite clear if the washer lizards are real. Washer lizards, in Hiroko Oyamada’s novel The Factory, appear only once, in a report written by a child. They are, supposedly, a species that have built a habitat in the cleaning facilities of the sprawling factory the ...
A Night at the Library
October 28, 2019
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In the early twentieth century, the Brooklyn Library system had numerous Carnegie-funded branches, but, unlike the Manhattan system, then developing its 42nd Street pièce de résistance, it lacked a Central Hub. Some academics and public figures toured France to draw ...
All Right Already
By now, we know where Facebook’s allegiances lie
Fresh Hell
October 25, 2019
Where There’s Smoko, There’s Fire
Austerity Blues
October 25, 2019
After sixty years of IMF intervention, Pakistan has little to show for it
So Metaphorical
October 24, 2019
Parasite, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes (in a reportedly unanimous decision) and was (less unanimously) a finalist for the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, begins in a dead-end.
The film opens in a dingy sub-basement at the ass-end of a ...
The Times Takes to TV
October 24, 2019
The Times pursues "all the views that flit from print."