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Women have always been crucial in The Lord of the Rings. Now they’re the main characters.

This Labor Day, the poet A.D. Winans pays tribute to the workers of the world.

The author is strongest when he deals with the government’s direct attempts to influence public opinion through comics either through the Writers’ War Board (WWB) of World War II or the creation of propaganda comics during the early Cold War.

Karl Kautsky was once the world's leading Marxist theoretician, but his reputation dimmed after World War I. On the occasion of the publication of a newly translated volume of his writings, reviewer Vaquas offers a reassessment.

With a solid premise about working-class vampire hunters, Day Shift had real potential — but there’s no escaping the Netflix curse.

For some black families, chitlins are essential. For a younger generation, the polarizing dish is a dirty trick.

Lucy DeVito talks about how FX's Little Demon brings something new—and charmingly, demonically feminist—to the saturated adult cartoon genre.

Has the war become boring, asks San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil, how can you not hear the mourning birds?

The author revisits his newly expanded influential work ‘Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination,’ and talks solidarity, reciprocity, and expansive visions of emancipation.

John W. Dean and Bob Altemeyer's study, writes reviewer Sharpe, offers "considerable insight concerning the question of why the MAGA base shows itself so impervious to reasoned criticism of their hero, and so determined to stand by him."