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Trevor Jackson traces the “dumb, inhuman logic” of endless growth over hundreds of years, and gestures at a better world.

Criterion Channel is hosting a retrospective on Hollywood’s “corporate thrillers” from the 1980s through the early 2000s. If anything, their message about the capitalist rot in America’s institutions looks far too tame for how the last couple of deca

Deep in desiccated Southern groves, the powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal, unrelenting decline. No one wants to face what that means.

Barbara Kopple’s films Harlan County USA and American Dream captured labor struggle as it was happening: on picket lines, inside unions, and under pressure. Decades later, both remain some of the finest labor documentaries ever made.

Poet Leslie Simon gathers a cacophony of voices, some warlike, some not, surveying the present devastation.

This book, says reviewer Silverstein, "is written for this moment. More than translating Bundist theory from Yiddish," he adds, author Crabapple "puts it into the language of today’s left."

All you need to know about Andy Serkis' absurd adaptation is that it starts with a barnyard rap.

What is it about cookbooks that lend themselves so fluidly to self-reflection and experimentation alike? As Hannah Goldfield puts it, the form “evinces something encouraging: a curiosity about how other people live, the texture of their days.”

A heated online discourse about Dr. Samira Mohan's departure only scratches the surface of a bigger issue.

Like a magician, poet Tongo Eisen-Martin pulls words and images out of a hat filled with frightening wonders.