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California poet Nels Goñi Christianson honors the women who made him the man he is, their often undervalued care and strength.

Reviewer Briody calls this book "a tightly written and well-reported account of the rise of extremism in small-town America."

James Mangold’s biopic "A Complete Unknown" follows the rise of the era-defining star Bob Dylan with Chalamet brilliantly embodying his shapeshifting allure.

Culture industries are dominated by a few big corporations that prefer to keep flogging old stories instead of taking a risk on something new. Creative workers can still produce fresh ideas, but they’re snuffed out before they get a chance to breathe

Poet Weijia Pan offers a glimpse of the contradictions in a “classless” society.

Activist and writer Jim Williams, in his new autobiography, covers his life from Students for a Democratic Society activist, to Communist labor editor, to social worker.

In finding a new way to adapt Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Nickel Boys, director RaMell Ross changes the way we perceive the world itself.

Most people do their food shopping solely at supermarkets or grocery stores where they find only those options that big food corporations allow them. Today the top five food retail companies account for about half of the market.

Could a movie musical about a trans Mexican drug lord be this awards season’s Crash?

California poet Charlotte Muse digs into the open grave which is Gaza.