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Apple TV Plus' latest has plenty of comedic chemistry but struggles to land its message

Amy Soricelli’s poetry captures the grit of The Bronx: the passing “radio from an open car window” or a “random gunshot.”

This book, published two years ago (as was this review), remains timely, especially given decisions already handed down by the evangelical Christian U.S. Supreme Court majority, as well as those expected from the Court later this month.

The Janes felt only months ago like a warning. Now it feels like a manual for action.

Weaving together new research and rich primary sources, the Plant Humanities Initiative recounts stories of global foods, such as peanuts, to illuminate their extraordinary significance to humans.

Ultimately the new Queer as Folk, by telling a wider and more disparate set of stories, manages to produce a narrative that's broader and deeper — and significantly queerer — than its predecessors.

Grief, anxiety of more to come, infiltrates an ordinary family in Rachel Mallalieu’s poem.

George Floyd was committed to being a person that mattered. But he was also Black, so he could never catch a break. As he got older the police were always at the ready. The day Chauvin murdered him was not the first time he had met Chauvin.

This author's apparent attempt to save the MAGA ideology from the far right, says reviewer Washington, "is in the end a dangerous nationalist concoction, based on an ideology that takes losers as a must and broadens existing divisions."

David Cronenberg’s latest film, Crimes of the Future, is a return to the “body horror” genre. It brings back the gross-out gore that first made his career in the 1970s — but without the thrills.