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If you follow the speaker’s directions, you’ll be as lost as he is. Poet Peter Neil Carroll wonders what’s worth finding in this place that most Americans have forgotten.

The memoirs of John Fetterman and Joe Manchin offer revealing insights into two figures granted outsized importance by our broken political system.

Christopher Nolan’s smash hit epic has continued to excite and enrage everyone from rightwingers to academics, an old-fashioned throwback to a uniting big-screen event

Some foods created specifically for soldiers — or adopted and popularized by the military — have found their way from the ration pack to supermarket shelves across America.

This crime drama about a female serial killer is enormously entertaining TV that demands you pay attention

California poet Christine Holland transforms the famous phrase by John Keats from a statement of personal anxiety to a lament for the planet and all its creatures.

Oversize personalities converge, to introduce or, for most readers, reintroduce subject and author. Howard Zinn. Yet Zinn’s work and life stand against what Trumpians seek to do to US history and today’s hardly-surviving democratic institutions.

Kohei Saito’s new book offers a compelling account of Marx’s development as an ecosocialist thinker.

The Lord of the Rings author’s debt to Norse mythology is simply irrelevant when it comes to the appearance of hobbits and elves on screen today

Previously companies created products and sold them via celebrities and marketing campaigns. The protein craze seems to have reversed this flow, with businesses desperately pumping out products to meet the demand created by social media influencers