When you really stop and think about it, it’s wild how common it is in the US to graduate college or art school with thousands of dollars of debt. While I’m fortunate to be in a better position than many of my peers, it’s likely I’ll be paying my undergrad alma mater back until I die or mysteriously win the lottery. (Oberlin, you can count on the former.)

Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay, a new text by the Debt Collective, picks apart how we got here and what we might be able to do to shift this dystopian reality. Check out Alexis Clements’s insightful review of their case for “economic disobedience.”

Also worth adding to your reading list is a new “pocket guide” to overlooked women artists. Lydia Pyne offers her take on Susie Hodges’s The Short History of Women Artists. Likewise, Ayoola Solarin and Ysabelle Cheung each dive into two timely and compelling graphic novels on our list, Ben Passmore’s Sports is Hell and Ancco’s Nineteen, respectively.

Lastly, check out this compelling excerpt of Darmon Richter’s haunting new text, Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide.

And if you’re observing Yom Kippur, g’mar chatima tovah.