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This crime drama about a female serial killer is enormously entertaining TV that demands you pay attention

California poet Christine Holland transforms the famous phrase by John Keats from a statement of personal anxiety to a lament for the planet and all its creatures.

Oversize personalities converge, to introduce or, for most readers, reintroduce subject and author. Howard Zinn. Yet Zinn’s work and life stand against what Trumpians seek to do to US history and today’s hardly-surviving democratic institutions.

Kohei Saito’s new book offers a compelling account of Marx’s development as an ecosocialist thinker.

The Lord of the Rings author’s debt to Norse mythology is simply irrelevant when it comes to the appearance of hobbits and elves on screen today

Previously companies created products and sold them via celebrities and marketing campaigns. The protein craze seems to have reversed this flow, with businesses desperately pumping out products to meet the demand created by social media influencers

Set in a dystopian future LA first introduced in Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner, and taking place 50 years after its 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049

Poet Jen Cheng demonstrates how even marginalized individuals can draw strength from their cultural heritage.

This book offers a new framework for understanding right wing politics.

Ava DuVernay announced Thursday that she has made a documentary for Netflix on the 14th Amendment, which gave liberty and rights to formerly enslaved people following the Civil War, and which has come under legal attack from President Donald Trump.