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The Northman is about a glowering, muscle-bound man-mountain named Prince Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård, son of Stellan) who as a boy witnesses the killing of his father, King Aurvandill (Ethan Hawke), and the abduction of his mother, Queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman), by the king’s betraying half-bastard brother Fjölnir (Claes Bang). Amleth vows revenge.

Pimento cheese’s history is one of migration and a food’s class-switching. The hankering for an exclusive ingredient created a new labor market and a broader appetite.

Sure, their characters are privileged, but they’re also dealing with unsteady marriages, ambition, and family.

Patrick Daly calls it “nothingness”--News from the war zone is never good news.

Judith Berlowitz’s historical novel offers readers a peek into the Spanish Civil War and the idealism that brought people from across the globe together to fight for democratic governance and human rights.

How modern literary criticism came to be – with a little help from TS Eliot, FR Leavis, Raymond Williams and others.

A military romance suffers under the weight of KGB surveillance in this restrained period drama set in Soviet-era Estonia.

In the years following World War II, American and European food scientists hoped to feed the world with common pond scum supplemented with plastics. But it wasn’t just the unpleasant flavor that killed the algae craze.

The new Apple TV+ show’s take on capitalism draws similarities to today’s fight for labor rights.

Peter N Carroll asks: What can a private citizen do when one country invades another, say Russia into Kyiv? What are the choices of intervention?