By Virginia Eubanks Privacy is not a thing, especially if you are poor. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks takes a microscope to three systems used by local governments to illustrate how big tech is playing a role in tracking and policing the poor. In doing so, she highlights cultural and political narratives that need to […]

Ever wonder if how the way your culture approaches death is the best way to approach death? Ever wonder about it all? From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty discusses the methods and traditions regarding death in cultures around the world. She gives brilliant descriptions of rituals and traditions from the people of Tana Toraja, […]

by Hanif Abdurraqib I know that I stopped thinking about extreme grief as the sole vehicle for great art when the grief started to take people with it.  They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us is a collection of essays by an author who grounds his memories and insights into life and race/religion relations in […]

Okay, picture this: Thor, who will always be Chris Hemsworth in my mind, loses his hammer to a giant who has stolen it and who will only give it back if Freya, another god, marries him. Freya won’t marry him, so Loki dreams up a new plan to help Thor get his hammer back, but […]

by Franklin Foer This book will give you more conversation starters than the finale of Game of Thrones. It will have you examining your navel and feeling bad about your online presence. You’ll question every choice you’ve made in the last decade as having possibly not been your own. While we continue to acquiesce to […]