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Poet Dan Vera adds fine-tuned anti-imperial politics to everything you need to know about bananas—and banana republics—from A to Z.

Once the provenance of teens, counterculturalists or authors who were fans, comics are now entrenched in academic discourse in what the essayist calls, "the theorizing of a kind of artistic poetics." The book under review ably looks at nonfiction comics as apt reflections on modern social ills.

This review focuses on a riveting novel about an African American couple caught up in the criminal justice system.

In January Russia banned “The Death of Stalin". This may have been the first time in post-Soviet history a movie that had already been granted permission to screen was pulled from theatres by order of the government. What made the film so dangerous?

Administration proposals about changes to the SNAP food program received harsh criticism from a wide variety of experts. Michel Nischan, founder of Wholesome Wave, discusses problems with the new proposals.

A decade ago, The Wire series finale aired. The show was a Marxist's idea of what TV drama should be.

How bad is bad? asks the poet Jennifer Michael Hecht, in this wrenching ballad of worse to worst.

On the 50th anniversary of G. William Domhoff’s Who Rules America, the author and 11 others take stock of the book’s findings about class and power in the United States, focusing on the drive to privatize public schools, extend power abroad...

Yascha Mounk argues that democracy and liberalism are not synonymous and counsels Americans to look to the examples of Hungary, India and Turkey.

Professor responsible for concept spotlighted in McDormand’s acceptance speech tells the Guardian how it can boost diversity.