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How It Feels to Work Hard August 27, 2024
When we, the WWOOFers, went in for lunch at noon, I’d always bring two wheelbarrows full of carrots with me, pushing the carts with my dirt-caked hands. A lot of the carrots were misshapen, covered in soil, or sprouting roots, but I had pulled each o...
The Wound and the Show August 16, 2024
Kat Tang’s debut, Five-Star Stranger, has a very bright and colorful dustjacket, but its less than effusive narrator, if not exactly unreliable, is not given to telling us what he’s feeling, and we sense that if we ever find out, somber tones will re...
How to Respond to Tradwife Envy August 15, 2024
Recently a number of hit pieces and critiques of the cultural phenomenon known as “tradwives” seem to suggest that progressive feminists are beginning to have a change of heart. Although their stated intention is to detract from the phenomenon, the ...
Questions of the Spirit August 14, 2024
One of the most powerful things Cesar Chavez is credited with saying wasn’t authored by him alone but alongside playwright Luis Valdez. It comes from “El Plan de Delano,” the manifesto written and read on the occasion of the United Farm Workers pereg...
