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Eight-episode series based on Liu Cixin novels triggers accusations of ‘Americanisation’ of a Chinese story

Poet W.D. Ehrhart makes a riff off 13 blackbirds, in hopes of you all doing the right thing in November.

An eye-opening read traces today’s collective rage against big tech back to the Luddite uprising the industrial revolution.

A vivid account exposes the myths of the catastrophic Ukrainian famine of 1932-3.

“All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present – not to say, ‘Look what they did then’; rather, ‘Look what we do now.”

Planned, farm-centered neighborhoods are on the rise in the United States, offering farm-to-table food and a strong community for residents.The Urban Land Institute considers agrihoods a possible solution to several issues in the US housing market.

AD’s journey underscores the Netflix hit’s (Love Is Blind) misogynoir problem.

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach knows more than a thing or two about Ukraine wars, way more to mark the passage of its second anniversary.

This study, writes reviewer Rosen, "assesses the growing gap between that super-rich millionaires and billionaires and ever-increasing number ordinary people who populate the planet."

Yet another “return to normal” Oscars — briefly disrupted by a statement from Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer criticizing Israel’s assault on Gaza — only demonstrates just how boring even a “good one” can be.