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I’m not the first voice to plead that we never go back to normal.

FX’s A Teacher unmasks itself as a condemnation of a storytelling trope too often characterized as innocent, sexy fun.

The Palestinian-American poet Noor Hindi does not “write about flowers,” but about the effects of colonization on her people.

Camila Valle interviews Selma James about feminism, anti-imperialism, and a lifetime of international Marxist organizing.

A new book invites us to revisit the world and ideas of one of our great writers, who also served, during the 20th Century, as a one of our society's outstanding voices of conscience and tribunes for justice.

How you feel about the ending of Promising Young Woman likely depends on what genre you think the movie is in.

Hmong farmers represent more than 50 percent of produce growers in Saint Paul and Minneapolis farmers markets but affordable land access has prevented them from further developing their businesses into more sustainable, profitable operations.

The problem with Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit isn’t that Beth is too pretty. It’s how the show handles her prettiness.

For California poet David Alpaugh, despite the promises of peace or justice, the violence of war lives on.

What will writers do when the outrage is over? Will they go back to writing about flowers and moons?