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

Adam Hochschild here produces a rich biography of the World War One-era socialist insurgent, Russian Jewish immigrant Rose Pastor Stokes, an impoverished cigar worker who counterintuitively married well and never forsook her working class roots.

Jericho Brown is the 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry for his collection, The Tradition. Here is a review of that volume.

'The Assistant': Julia Garner excels as a junior assistant to a predatory media mogul boss in Kitty Green’s powerfully understated #MeToo drama.

A variety of experts explain why getting food to those who need it is a challenge and what is being done about it.

Lovecraft Country foregrounds a group of savvy genre-fiction fans who also happen to be black, and allows them to grapple with Lovecraft’s racism as an allegory for American racism itself. But it also doesn’t stint on scenes of actual racism

The Paris-based poet Judith Mahoney Pasternak puts the story of David & Goliath into a contemporary un-Biblical perspective.

With a year to live, and confined to bed by injury and illness, the great Mexican artist transformed her bedroom into a sanctuary - and turned her pain into magnificent work.

This book is a new and innovative look at a pivotal moment in U.S. labor history.

A new documentary series uses individual cases of false convictions to reveal a terrifyingly unreliable criminal justice system.