“Big prisons in small towns”: that’s the focus of the third season of the WBEZ podcast Motive. The stories are Illinois-centric, but Illinois here is a stand-in for a nation.
Outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941. They sometimes remind me of Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966).
Prompted by the now-infamous listing for an unpaid teaching position at UCLA, The New York Times looks at the realities of academic labor: “The unspoken secret had been fleetingly exposed: Free labor is a fact of academic life.”