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Poet Suzanne Cleary sneaks a peek into the production of art in a theocratic society.

The film, A Complete Unknown, accurately portrays Dylan's two sides—a brilliant creative genius as a songwriter/poet and a narcissist who used and discarded people on behalf of his ambition. It tells a good story, but certainly not all the stories.

A new biography sheds light on her humble beginnings and prolific, genre-defining career.

“What is most important is not what people with unbridled power can impose on us, but rather on what we can do as human beings, as political actors.”

Chemist Feng Jiao and Robert Jinkerson, a specialist in artificial photosynthesis, contend that their system — known as “electro-agriculture” — could convert electricity into chemical energy with four times the efficiency of photosynthesis.

Both in his lyrics and the visuals that he chooses to highlight in his videos, Lamar is never direct.

In Geneffa Jahan's poem "Waiting" the speaker awaits her death as if it were an abusive lover.

A unionization wave sweeping across Off Broadway is poised to reshape the economics of theater-making in New York — for workers as well as producers. Workers say the move is overdue....

This book is the story of Daniel Murray, the assistant librarian of the Library of Congress from 1881-1922, and of the milieu and fate of the Reconstruction-era African American government workers and officials in Washington, DC.

Despite Emilia Pérez’s mixed reviews and poor audience reactions, Hollywood handed the musical 13 Oscar nominations in the hopes of proving its progressive bona fides. Then old tweets from its star surfaced.