Bread Alone is a powerful and necessary anthology in which 33 writers describe the practical and emotional challenges that ...
Today on Commotion, writers Deborah Dundas, Catherine Hernandez and Niko Startis discuss a new anthology about this topic.
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A century ago, a socialist magazine published a manifesto calling for workers to pick up the pen, heralding the dawn of America’s proletarian literary movement. Our society’s need for working-class ...
Today on Commotion, writers Deborah Dundas, Catherine Hernandez and Niko Stratis discuss a new anthology about this topic.
The escape from working-class life has good narrative pedigree, a classic form—beginning with the idea of escape itself. It’s something like a sharpened bildungsroman. The child is nudged forward by ...
Claire Baglin’s bracing On the Clock gives its readers a close look at work behind the fry station, and in the process asks what experiences are missing from mainstream letters. A fast-food restaurant ...
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at the Caribbean Day Parade, September 1, 2025. Credit: Andrea Renault/STAR MAX/IPx 2025 A number of progressive groups close to the Democratic Party and ...
NEW YORK — Jean Smart hasn’t been on Broadway for 25 years. The last time, she played a glittering, glamorous and ruthless actress in George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” a ...
The miners were central to two key moments of 20 th century British history. For nine days in May 1926 almost three million ...