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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.

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.