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Kat Candler will write the Texas-set project about a woman who leads the state's biggest strike.

Poet and Army veteran Karen Skolfield sees sexual assault in the military that “no one takes…seriously.”

Two new books on the fascist leader walk different paths; one identifying Hitler as key to virtually every juncture of the party’s rise and fall while the other looks more toward his racial worldview as profoundly preoccupied with ‘Anglo-America.

Two new memoirs portray the activist left over the last half-century.

John Sayles on his labor-uprising masterpiece Matewan, as it enters the Criterion Collection.

Food festivals are more popular and more elaborate than ever, but what’s not apparent to ticket buyers is that their growth has often been at the expense of the restaurants and chefs they’re supposed to promote.

Netflix has agreed to negotiate a first companywide contract with IATSE, the union representing the industry’s below-the-line workers.

An encounter with the mutilated statue of a freed slave leads the California poet Joseph Zaccardi to consider the names of those left nameless.

A review of the first English-language biography of one of Latin America’s most important, innovative, and enduringly relevant, Marxist thinkers.

This is an excellent and engaging read that exposes the structural flaws in the US government system and provides tangible, achievable proposals to address them, writes reviewer Frazier.