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In its second season, the award-winning medical drama is a scarily reflective show for the many Americans who watch it

Poet Christine Holland struggles against the disasters reported daily in the news, finding hope in the world's resilience and her own.

The most informative of all studies of humor on US television in its early golden years, this biography deserves wide reading. For readers sympathetic to today’s protests against media-created monsters it will offer reflections on what comedy can do

"The essays in this book," writes reviewer Perlman,"bring out Einstein’s deep humility, anti-racism and socialist commitment."

Given his rise during the ego joyride of the 1980s, it’s no shock that Trump’s foreign policy is to emulate that decade’s belligerent cinema

The new dietary guidelines, which were released Wednesday and emphasize protein, meat, cheese and milk, were informed by a panel of experts with several ties to the meat and dairy industries.

Created by two uni mates whose last gig was a David Hasselhoff comedy, the series has become a star-making transatlantic hit. Now it’s back for an intense fourth season that heads everywhere from Ghana to Sunderland

Poet Beau Beausoleil asks what happens when the crew on the "boat of liberty," a lifeboat bearing the survivors of other times and wrecks, gives up.

These two books reveal the urgent challenge of combatting harmful speech and propaganda – and the real violence it leads to – in our polarised political moment, writes reviewer Featherman.

Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme stars Timothée Chalamet as an obnoxious, nerdy young 1950s ping-pong hustler who somehow cons everyone around him. It’s flashy, fast, and made with so much talent it’s a shame they forgot to make much of a case