PS Picks: 'Ocean's 8' and Other Upcoming Female-Led Films
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PS Picks: The American Black Film Festival
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PS Picks: Kaitlin Prest's Radiotopia Podcast 'The Heart'
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PS Picks: Michelle Dean's 'Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion'
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PS Picks: Katie Watson's 'Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion'
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PS Picks: The 'Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today' Exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art
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PS Picks: The Conversation Around the Gun-Toting Christian Extremists of Ubisoft's 'Far Cry 5'
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PS Picks: Black Panther's Hollywood Breakout
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PS Picks: 'A Fantastic Woman' Sets a Fantastic Example for Transgender Casting
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PS Picks: Morgan Jerkins on Intergenerational Trauma in 'This Will Be My Undoing'
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PS Picks: The Radical Evolution of the Pirelli Calendar
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PS Picks: Spike Lee's Promising and Modern Netflix Reboot of 'She's Gotta Have It'
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TV Series 'Top of the Lake: China Girl' Explores the Need for More Diverse Police Departments
Pacific Standard recommends this tense exploration of how a female officer can affect the course and outcome of a case involving another woman.
Taking Stock of Thurgood Marshall's Civil Rights Legacy
Pacific Standard recommends Marshall, a new movie about a pivotal character in the civil rights movement.
Toni Morrison's New Book Explores Society's Tendency to Construct Otherness
Pacific Standard recommends The Origin of Others, which looks to spark discussion about the written word's role in perpetuating and complicating black-and-white binaries.
A New Netflix Documentary Addresses Police Brutality With Personal and Political Force
Pacific Standard recommends Strong Island, more cinematic memoir than true-crime investigation.
PS Picks: 'Sour Heart,' a Book of Short Stories Exploring Race, Class, and Identity
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PS Picks: 'Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman,' a Documentary That Upends Stereotypes
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PS Picks: '(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love,' a New Book That Depicts Vlogging as Aspirational Labor
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PS Picks: 'Star Trek: Discovery' and a More Optimistic Vision of the Future
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PS Picks: The Buried Aggression in Lady Macbeth
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PS Picks: Exploring Mass Incarceration as a Societal Problem in 'The Prison in Twelve Landscape'
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PS Picks: Zeynep Tufekci's 'Twitter and Tear Gas'
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Is Poetry Poised for a Renaissance?
Pacific Standard recommends The Poetry of Pop and Simulacra, two new books that challenge the outdated way doomsayers define poetry.
How Technology Has Already Changed What It Means to Be Human
Pacific Standard recommends To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death, a new book that profiles members of the transhumanist movement.
PS Picks: Netflix's 'Bill Nye Saves the World'
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