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“You can tell a lot by a laugh,” said a certain Republican politician, and a laugh may set you free!

How the early ’90s set the stage for America’s crooked present.

Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut joins a microgenre of films, from Promising Young Woman to Don’t Worry Darling, that try – and mostly fail – to capture a difficult moment

This book reveals the work of the International Life Sciences Institute funded by Coca-Cola

Pachinko follows Sunja, a young Korean woman who immigrates to Japan in the late 1930s after marrying a Protestant minister. A mother of two in unfamiliar territory, she strives to take care of her family amid poverty, racism, and political turmoil.

"…wherever you are is called here," writes poet Esther Kamkar in this era of refugees and immigrations, "and you must treat it as a powerful/ stranger."

The conservative movement’s total abandonment of even the appearance of principles has been decades in the making.

Harris’s passion for cooking is well-documented; the cookbook titles tell about the contours and range of her interest in the culinary arts. She values the restorative powers of cooking as part of a community; and she understands food as identity.

“War is warm this year,” writes the poet Oksana Maksymchuk, violence spilling over international borders, stinging with no end in sight.

Though written for young children, the book addresses a serious subject of bullying, bullying that comes with a real consequence too many suffer: hunger. Usually in children’s literature, the hurt depicted when a character is mean is about feelings.