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Friday also brings a movie on another musical icon, albeit one largely unfamiliar to the American masses: Viktor Tsoi, frontman of perhaps the most popular and influential of Soviet rock bands, Kino.

We consumers think that long distance travel for food must cost more, damage the food, require chemicals to extend shelf life, and consume fossil fuels that end up polluting our environment. But is this really true?

Netflix's new comedy follows a gay man assisting a dominatrix. Sex workers say the show is stigmatizing and unrealistic.

May 31, 2019, is the 200th birthday of the seminal American poet

The seventh book in the Lenny Moss mystery series features the intrepid Philadelphia hospital shop steward tracking down a murderer even as hospital staff and patients face down a virulent Zika virus attack.

This book examines the influence Islam had on European political thought between the 15th to the 18th centuries, as well as the complex relations between the Ottoman Empire and emergent modern Europe during that era.

Bong Joon-ho's brilliant family saga Parasite captured modern anxieties at Cannes, but it wasn't alone.

It’s not always perfect, but the nuances of the show’s disabled characters make it stand out.

This is a feminist theatrical. A very political play. If you don't want to go to a lecture about what is wrong with how the US government treats women and minorities, it's more interesting to go to a play.

“When a thought from the past fires the soul,” writes the poet Joseph Zaccardi of a wartime memory, “time is no more.” And yet it clings to the present.