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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.

Based on the famously unfinished short story by Edgar Allan Poe, the filmmaker conjures madness and dread for this period piece about two lighthouse keepers' inner and outer darkness.

Halloween has a centuries’-long tradition of costumes and scary stuff, but the door-to-door visitations for collecting candy started after the end of WWII sugar rationing, in the late 1940s.

The organizers of Time’s Up have called upon NBC to state that people are allowed to talk about their experiences freely, regardless of any past NDAs.