A discussion with documentary filmmaker Julia Reichert, whose work chronicles labor, women, and the American left, and who won an Oscar this year for ‘American Factory’

This is the story behind the breads you might be baking in lockdown. Grace Z. Li in SF Weekly writes “Baking bread is cheap, it’s time-consuming, it’s indoors, it’s useful, and it’s as healthy as its add-ons will be."

Americanah is the latest in a growing trend of Africa-focused film and TV shows geared for a global audience.

2020, the year, the eyesight, the zeroes, so the Mississippi poet Philip Kolin greets the new decade, calling up the failures of Trumpism in his own words.

A deep, translucent dive into Marx's capacity to take Hegel's comservatizing worldviews and turn them into elements of revolutionary theory and practice.

The great English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850), writes reviewer Johnston, based his groundbreaking style on the "radical claim that apparently trivial things and people, the rhythms of ordinary life, were the stuff of true poetry."

'Bacurau' was filmed before Jair Bolsonaro won the corrupted election for presidency of Brazil, yet in its timelessness seems to say more now about Brazil and global North-South relations than even before.

On social media, shoppers across the country have been sharing pictures of grocery stores' denuded shelves and shopping baskets overflowing with random groceries.

What is in store for Westworld’s androids now they’re out in the real world? Kevin E G Perry hears how showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have got it all planned out

This extract from Nâzım Hikmet’s poetry speaks to the real crisis in these times of trouble.