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When it comes to normal longevity – living to 85 – your lifestyle is more important than your genetic makeup; but if you don’t have that genetic makeup, then you’re not going to make it to 100.

As television continues to expand its world of stories, we find inclusivity extending; Sex Education’s diversity includes race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, gender, and a skillful study of sexuality and sex drive itself.

Jennifer Elise Foerster’s poetry depicts the natural environment—songbirds, hackberry trees, a butterfly named Question—fated for an apocalyptic ending.

A well-regarded historian muses on key works that illuminate history and popular struggles.

This book, writes reviewer Tebble, "not only gives an account of the different meanings that have been ascribed to liberalism and evoked in its uses." It also "recovers some of those meanings that have been eclipsed, distorted and eroded."

In many Oscar bait movies, interracial friendships come with a paycheck, and follow the white character’s journey to enlightenment.

In the future, everyone will have 15 minutes of selling fast food from beyond the grave.

Taking a global perspective, Ohio poet Amit Majmudar masterfully links issues of ecology and refugees.

An inquiry into how and why one’s class background in Great Britain privileges or thwarts access to elite occupations through an investigation of barriers to upward mobility.

This study "is a thoroughly engaging and much-needed contribution to a gendered understanding of the Cuban Revolution in particular and of armed conflict in general," says reviewer Triplett.