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A sex worker in a romantic comedy isn’t new. How the Oscar-nominated film uses immigrant Brooklyn to subvert the genre? That’s different.

There may be “some pain” Trump admitted of his tariff schemes; “But we will Make America Great Again, and it will all be worth the price that must be paid.”

The memes celebrating Luigi Mangione are far from novel: they represent a long tradition of American popular culture voicing outrage at the injustices of our health care system, from Dog Day Afternoon to Star Trek: Voyager to John Q.

Poet Carine Topal finds resistance even in the most crushingly authoritarian society.

Reviewer Simmons-Thorne this book aims to show "how de Beauvoir and black feminists conceive women’s oppression disparately and to criticize how de Beauvoir’s conception marginalizes Black women and other women of color in feminist thought."

The most remarkable part of this film is the irony of how it lands in the political moment: “Brave New World” features a Black iteration of the quintessential American superhero a month into an administration dedicated to eliminating diversity.

The Mediterranean diet has become a mishmash of hyperbole, half-truths and howlers, stirred together for political and commercial ends.

Poet Suzanne Cleary sneaks a peek into the production of art in a theocratic society.

The film, A Complete Unknown, accurately portrays Dylan's two sides—a brilliant creative genius as a songwriter/poet and a narcissist who used and discarded people on behalf of his ambition. It tells a good story, but certainly not all the stories.

A new biography sheds light on her humble beginnings and prolific, genre-defining career.