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This extract from Nâzım Hikmet’s poetry speaks to the real crisis in these times of trouble.

My daddy passed away last night. We now join the worldwide family who are mourning grandfathers and grandmothers, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers- kinfolk, friends, neighbors, colleagues, acquaintances and others.

A prominent scholarly critic of the Far Right and its populist pretensions weighs in on an equally problematic stance: the unfortunate valorization of a left populist orientation.

This is a new history of the radical and emancipatory movements of the 1960s, as those struggles emerged in and helped define Los Angeles during that era.

"Cuba's Cancer Hope" is a new documentary on the two countries' research into a lung cancer vaccine and proves that no political feud can "block" progress.

MFK Fisher's How to Cook a Wolf is a hopeful message on how to survive during wartime when food supply lines were disrupted, fuel was scarce, and people stocked "blackout shelves" in case of a bombing.

In our current social climate, the antisocial aspects of "Curb's" 10th season often come off as shrewdly protective.

New York poet Esther Cohen addresses the suddenness of change and notices what hasn’t changed at all.

The social breakdown, symbolized by Trump's election and the malign effects of austerity policies serve to destroy faith in neoliberal capitalism. When that faith started to fray, new forms of outsider populist politics emerged left and right.

This book on modern immigration explores the complex relationship South Asian migrants to the U.S. have with the always contested notion of "whiteness."