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By Debra Satz
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By Emily Wilson — Director Ramin Bahrani’s latest film “At Any Price” tells the story of a man who runs a farming empire and sells genetically modified seeds. We talked recently with Bahrani about the pressures of farming in the current Monsanto-dominated environment and how the country has changed since Alexis de Tocqueville wrote “Democracy in America.”
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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Artwork, images and photo from Brian Wood's website.
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By Sheerly Avni — Brian Wood is a best-selling comic book writer whose body of work expresses a political and social awareness that ranks with the best in speculative fiction.
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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By Sheerly Avni — How did Gael García Bernal, an outspoken leftist who has played Che Guevara not once, but twice, end up starring in a film that would appear, on the surface at least, to be a celebration of 20th century free-market economics?
Posted on Mar 23, 2013
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Photo by Tomás Dittburn, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
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By Emily Wilson — In his latest film, Larraín continues his examination of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, this time looking at the campaign to oust him.
Posted on Feb 15, 2013
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By Kasia Anderson — The collaboration between director Oliver Stone and one-man political think tank Tariq Ali began not three years ago, but their mind-meld has already produced three projects spanning multiple continents and eras. Stone gave a talk in Los Angeles last weekend … (more)
Posted on Oct 28, 2011
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By Emily Wilson — Writer-director Rashaad Ernesto Green tells us about why he set his film “Gun Hill Road” in the Bronx, finding a transgender actress to play the teen, how anyone who has ever been a teenager should be able to identify with the film, and the power of art.
Posted on Aug 12, 2011
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By Sheerly Avni — “The Adderall Diaries” author isn’t one to hold back, as readers of his memoir—not to mention his tweets, blogs, “overly personal emails,” essays and online magazine, The Rumpus—know well. Here, he opens up about his literary projects, his hyperlocal politics and the role of narcissism in his work.
Posted on Oct 22, 2010
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The veteran journalist talks to Truthdig’s James Harris about his new book, which zeroes in on a war-averse president struggling to impose order on chaos abroad without losing his grip on the home front.
Posted on Oct 14, 2010
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By John Timpane, Philadelphia Inquirer —
“This book really began around the kitchen table at the rectory with crock-pot stew.” Eliza Griswold—with a poet’s eye for the telling, homely image—is tracing the genesis of her new book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches From the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam.
Posted on Sep 23, 2010
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Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
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