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Oakland poet Murray Silverstein takes you, me, Primo Levi, Dante & Ulysses on a tour of hell, a place not unlike contemporary America.

In the first years of the war, it was more than coincidental that the frontline fighters were disproportionately Black. Still, the Pentagon was willing to tolerate Black soldiers only inasmuch as they forswore cultural expressions of Blackness.

What does a new edition of Edward Said’s classic ‘Representations of the Intellectual’ reveal in the context of the crisis in Gaza?

Are you desperate for genre movie escapist fun amid all this hell lately? Who isn’t? Sam Raimi’s Send Help is just what the doctor ordered.

As the only place in the continental US where it almost never freezes, South Florida can support fruits usually only found in the tropics; thanks to new advances in plant breeding and growing interest from consumers, the industry here is booming.

An obscure 19th-century Russian novel about love and class and a 21st-century gay hockey romance might seem worlds apart. But both Heated Rivalry and Molotov offer the same thing: small parables of tenderness and bravery in overwhelming times.

Poet and activist E. Ethelbert Miller considers what it's like to be caught in the crosshairs of two superpowers.

Telling the story of Jessica Mitford and the fight to integrate public housing in Richmond, California is an inspiration for today's movements for both housing and against ICE and defense of immigrants.

The end of the twentieth century left rural America shell-shocked, and residents reacted accordingly.

As the musical version of the notoriously gory book returns to the stage, its tale of 80s yuppie nihilism feels more relevant than ever in the era of Andrew Tate, Trump and tech bros