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Drawing on her many years working in human rights and public health, poet Mary Ann Castle offers a portrait of a woman whose homelessness is a form of suffering but also an occasion of enlightenment.

This fascinating intellectual history of imagined paradises takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin.

Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day is corny and cluttered. But in these dark days, a classic Spielberg summer movie about aliens is just what the doctor ordered.

Calls for ambitious policy responses to climate and geopolitical risks in the current food system are growing louder. Experts agree it can’t just be technology that bolsters food security; governments need a new vision to support it.

Football’s governing body, FIFA, won’t even stand up for players, referees, and fans who are being harassed by the US authorities. It’s no surprise FIFA boss Gianni Infantino has also offered his services to help whitewash Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

On the hundredth birthday of Allen Ginsberg, poet William Berkowitz reminds us that before there was the poet who wrote HOWL, there was his father, Louis Ginsberg, the poet who wrote the poet who wrote HOWL.

A portrait of life in the Iranian capital through the months leading up to the war, and in the first weeks under the Israeli and U.S. "Operation Epic Fury".

In his new book, Steven Thrasher lays out his theory of the “phenomenon in which people from marginalized populations amass power not by uplifting people from the communities they come from, but by collectively cracking the of their own.”

Two indie horror movies with YouTube origins, Obsession and Backrooms, crushed big-budget Star Wars and He-Man movies at the box office. But claims that these films represent a revival of cinematic creativity à la the New Hollywood era are overblown.