Reports of the U.S. burning 500 tons of USAid food designated for children brings to mind a comparable scene in “Grapes of Wrath.”
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Hammett on Boomeranging Power Plays
Hammett’s “Red Harvest,” with its tale of corruption rebounding on the corrupt, seems particularly relevant today.
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Some Good News, Thanks to the Sun
Bill McKibben reports good news about the world’s conversion to solar so here are poems praising the sun from Larkin and Milton.
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Ibsen on Why MAGA Hates Experts
Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People” helps us understand MAGA’s hatred of expertise.
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He Saw a Stranger Left by Thieves
Henry Lawson’s “Good Samaritan” recasts the story in working class terms.
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Atwood Predicted ICE
In her sequel to “Handmaid’s Tale,” Atwood describes arrest scenes that immigrants snatched by ICE are actually experiencing.
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America’s Concentration Camps
Trump concentration camp Alligator Alcatraz is sending me to poems written about the Nazi concentration camps.
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Emily Dickinson’s Walk on the Beach
For a good July beach poem, check out Emily Dickinson’s sensual “I started early – took my dog.”
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Texas Flooding: The Ship Came In
The horrible flooding in Texas brings to mind Bob Dylan’s apocalyptic “The Hour When the Ship Comes In.”