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In a time when the murder of African Americans in plain sight terrifies the news, Poet Amaud Jamaul Johnson captures the feeling of capture.

The world economy, to the degree it still works at all, serves to benefit the few at the expense of the many. The author of the book under review does an economic deep dive into ways that can reverse that antidemocratic equation.

Journalist Lawrence Wright brings his considerable skills to bear in this novel about a pandemic, written before our current crisis erupted.

Elliza Hittman’s coming-of-age story about a teenager seeking an abortion is heartbreaking and painfully authentic. Hittman has described her film as “a narrative about a girl carrying around a lot of pain and burden, and the lonliness of it all".

Snowpiercer is full of people who aren’t white men who nonetheless prop up an unequal system; the series contemplates the ways in which we are all cogs in the machine, while looking to all of these same parties to dismantle it.

Arizona-based poet Lollie Butler’s poetry captures the horrors of refugees crossing the Sonora desert.

A portrait of the exploitative, homicidal racial dynamics lying at the nation’s core, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis.

The shift toward home cooking and eating at home during the past months of the pandemic may lead to healthier diets.

Hollywood on Netflix serves as a love letter speaking to what the future may hold through a bold retelling of the past and what could have been.

“Even Andrew Cuomo finds time to call his mother,” explains Oregon poet Christine Hamm, addressing the emotional impact of the long quarantine.