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A librarian tells her story of being on the front lines of the far right wing assault on libraries and knowledge.

Writer-director Celine Song’s Materialists follows a professional NYC matchmaker split between two charming suitors. It’s yet another attempt to update the Jane Austen formula, but without the poignancy and beauty of Song’s acclaimed Past Lives.

You may think you know which foods contain artificial color, but many dyes could be lurking in foods you'd never expect.

These days, it’s hard to care about affluent fictional characters who get away with everything.

An oldy but a goldy. Poet, philosopher, artist and mystic, William Blake offers us a vision of the struggle to build a peaceful and just society, an early skirmisher in the fight against capitalism. Check out those 'dark Satanic Mills.'

This book, writes reviewer Alpert, is "a powerful account of our failures to stop the war in Gaza, despite the professed worth we place on values like empathy.

David Arena relaunched Horn & Hardart a little over two years ago. His goal is to bring back not just the company but its values.

That in 1977, during a brutal military dictatorship, Oesterheld and his four daughters were all "disappeared" added immeasurably to the graphic novel's resonance. Today it's regarded as an Argentine pop culture classic.

Riffing on an ancient myth, poet Alan Dugan finds a lesson applicable to our current predicament.

This book looks at previously under examined aspects of Arendt's thinking, especially regarding issues of love, gender, and race, in order to probe more deeply into the work of one of the 20th century's most celebrated political thinkers.