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There were 1,319 fewer jobs in TV writing in the 2023-24 season.

California poet Nels Goñi Christianson describes two ways of celebrating Thanksgiving.

This fascinating book questions whether such a misunderstood ideal should be lauded as an end in itself.

Hayao Miyazaki's environmentalist masterpiece Princess Mononoke returns to theaters while his style is stolen by AI.

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea brought the experience of postrevolutionary Cuba to the screen in classic movies like Memories of Underdevelopment and Strawberry and Chocolate. Alea’s committed, artistically dazzling work set a benchmark for political cinema.

Researchers from Minnesota State University Mankato showed that ‘storytelling’ combined with marketing tactics like coupons “significantly increases consumers’ consumption of unattractive produce”.

“I don’t play for Boston. I play for the Celtics,” Bill Russell famously said, a sentiment that succinctly summed up the star player’s frustrations with the racism in his adopted city, where he had an unbelievably successful run in the ’50s and ’60s

Poet Suzanne Lummis offers a bedtime story for the children of America, in which we witness the miracle of deflation.

A critical assessment of the newest translation of Marx's masterwork.

The press is blaming the young and very online actor Rachel Zegler for Snow White’s dismal box office showing. But Zegler’s performance as the original Disney princess is the only bright spot in an otherwise cynical cash grab.