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As space travel changes, not every single person in space will be an astronaut; eventually, someone will have to clean the space toilets. And when that day comes, we’ll need to talk about labor in space.

Poet Alexandra Umlas uses the subtle form, a sestina, to convey the tenuous substance of American political poetry.

This study, which focuses on the 2020 protests after George Floyd's murder, offers, says reviewer Smith, "the first truly comprehensive account of that summer."

In “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” the desire for home is at once existential and literal, a matter of self and safety, being and belonging. This is, of course, part of the story of being black in the United States.

A recent petition signed by nearly 900 food professionals calling for a cease-fire raises, once again, questions of contested cuisines.

The New Yorker tried to pin the comedian down with facts. It didn’t work.

California poet Joseph Zaccardi reminds us that war veterans carry their burdens through their lifetimes.

This "brilliant act of novel-making," writes reviewer Orringer, "builds a wholly believable and infinitely faceted reality around" the experiences of two fathers that each lost a child to war, and the friendship that developed between them.

Director Kaouther Ben Hania restages pivotal moments from a family’s life telling the story of a Tunisian woman who has four daughters, two of whom disappeared in 2015 to join ISIS in Libya.

A growing number of farmers are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, to tackle daily tasks. One farmer said “I’ve been blown away by the information it can kick out in a host of different areas."