New & Noteworthy: Vigilante Justice, the ‘Unruly Saint,’ and More

Children of the Underground

After seeing the courts return many children to allegedly abusive fathers, Faye Yager created an underground network that hid hundreds of mothers and children. The five-part docuseries Children of the Underground shows the moral complexity of Yager’s vigilante justice.
Hulu/FX

Thresh and Hold

Marlanda Dekine is a queer poet of Gullah-Geechee descent whose writing is full of frenzy, heart, history, and place. In Thresh & Hold, we find Dekine “exhausted of singing / in an empire’s hopeful choir,” eager to find a spiritual home.
Hub City Press

Unruly Saint

Dorothy Day “was the kind of paradox that intrigues the world,” writes D.L. Mayfield in Unruly Saint, a book exploring the life of the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. Mayfield explores what this anarchist lover of Catholic liturgy can teach our world today.
Broadleaf