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Moussa Touré’s La Pirogue, Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad

In his new book Kill Anything That Moves, Nick Turse shows that what were often presented as isolated atrocities were in fact the norm.

Joseph Anton is a tale of betrayals: of free speech, communities, religion, marriages, personal convictions, friends.

Lucia Perillo’s On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths.

The tension between the personal and the political permeates new books on Haiti by Amy Wilentz and Jonathan M. Katz.

It's the antidote to the consumerism and cynicism that define our culture.

Artists can open a space of possibility in politics, but their role is problematic—and not always positive.

It’s how I came to understand that the world—and all oppression—is connected.

By providing free instruments, we use music to help rehabilitate prison inmates.