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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.

Wild shrimp is advertised on menus, but what is served is often the farm-raised, imported kind that makes up more than 90 percent of the shrimp consumed in the U.S.

Netflix's four-part series puts guessing games aside and instead tells a dark, timely, conversation-starting story.

As she travels across America, poet Marsha de la O asks her country, "Who is lost, and who isn't?"

"The principal virtue of the book," writes reviewer Koppelman, "is the light it unintentionally sheds on some of the Supreme Court’s least defensible decisions."

Black Bag is being hailed by critics as highly sophisticated cinematic fare — rather than an unambitious rush job by a talented director eager to move on to his next, similarly unsatisfying project.

Whether it supports the production of wine or cheese, terroir is a “particularly French conception of cultural territory” says historian Tamara L. Whited.

Apple’s dystopian workplace thriller Severance entered its second season as a genuine cultural phenomenon. With its brutal satire of the American corporate structure, it’s easy to see why.

Poet Peter Carroll reminds us why we celebrate the arrival of spring.