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Gordon-Levitt plays an anxious drifter in Apple’s angsty, slow-burning new dramedy, which rewards its viewers’ patience

Colorado poet José A. Alcántara has a thing or two to say about the difference between so-called professional revolutionaries and mere amateurs.

The Romance Writers of America is again embroiled in controversy after giving its Vivian Award to Karen Witemeyer’s At Love’s Command, a historical romance observers say glorifies the genocide of Lakota people at the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890.

This new book, writes reviewer Quinn, asks "what does freedom look like as a practice, not in the future but now, in our imperfect and unequal world?"

The latest film adaptation of Dune, Frank Herbert’s cult sci-fi novel series, is out next month. With its often-reactionary mix of political cynicism, ecological catastrophism, and lurid orientalism, it remains oddly attractive to left-wing audiences

The film “Roadrunner” about chef Anthony Bourdain,, who tried to make his food-based adventures as authentic as possible, generates discussions about the ethics of the art form itself.

Sandra Oh’s Netflix series - Instead of fetishizing the literary classroom as a luminous font of inspiration, the series shows us how Ji-Yoon’s strenuous efforts are constantly crushed by structural racism and sexism.

Labor Day: Former Poet of the United States Robert Pinsky reads his poem “Shirt,” among the great works of poetry about labor.

In the gold-rush era, initial ceremonial greetings soon gave way to bigotry and violence as Chinese immigrants were tarred as a “coolie race” and cast as a threat to free white labor. The two books under review tell the story of how and why.

"There have been many books on neoliberalism and financialization," writes reviewer Sharpe, but few others "have traced the history down to the level of individual documents and memos."