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This study of the life and work of a leading exponent in Europe of freely improvised jazz, writes reviewer Shukaitis, argues that its subject's music "must be understood through the prism of revolutionary politics."

Jonah Hill’s new Apple TV Hollywood satire, Outcome, wants to skewer celebrity culture. But even with the likable Keanu Reeves, its muddled script and self‑pitying subtext reveal more about the industry’s narcissism than the film ever intended.

Since 2018, the Healthy Community Store Initiative (HCSI) has encouraged the owners of local stores to stock healthy options in Buffalo’s food deserts, while educating customers on the benefits of eating healthful foods, checking one’s blood pressur

The revival of the hit 2000s sitcom has none of the political subversiveness of the original. But should we be surprised? Social and economic pressures, arguably more intense now than in the 2000s, are noticeably absent in the show.

Iranian-American poet Esther Kamkar has lived in Iran, Israel, & the US. Rather than sink into despair, she finds consolation in nature's tenacious resilience.

This new book, the first of a projected three-volume history, is "the first by activists who grew up, so to speak, within, around, and just beyond the orbit of the CPUSA," writes reviewer Buhle.

Merger will ‘prioritise the interests of a small group of powerful stakeholders over the broader public good’, letter states

As the world’s food supply rushes to accommodate eight and a half billion mouths, scientists pioneer techniques to prevent post-harvest loss, not just react to it. Global food security can often hinge on forces barely larger than a grain of rice.

Poet Daniel Spector meditates on Empire, the disappeared and resistance.

Saïd Khatibi’s ‘The End of the Sahara,’ the first Algerian crime novel translated from Arabic by Bitter Lemon Press, potently critiques Orientalist fantasies of desert romance.