Ransome’s moving novel in verse One Big Open Sky is riven by questions of freedom. Early on in the tale of 10 black families heading West out of Mississippi to take advantage of the land promised by ...

After years of separation, three Filipino siblings, all domestic workers in Italy, reunite in Liryc Dela Cruz's feature debut, which world premieres in the Berlinale's new Perspectives section.

Created by librettist Béla Balázs’ and composer Béla Bartók, it is only one act long and traditionally sung in Hungarian.

Manuel Muñoz's stories of farmworker families in the vast and complex Central Valley of California have won him the 2025 Luis ...

“We Need New Names” is NoViolet Bulawayo’s 2013 debut novel about a young impoverished African girl who eventually moves to ...

A new biography of Charles W. Chesnutt, by Tess Chakkalakal, explains the friendships and tensions he had with his white ...

Even when bogus papers are spotted – usually by amateur sleuths on their own time – academic journals are often slow to retract the papers, allowing the articles to taint what many consider sacrosanct ...

Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale, and ...

The Vegetarian” by Han Kang is something completely mysterious. While being short and reduced of overworked and hackneyed ...

A systematic literature review found no evidence to support that physical exertion without rhabdomyolysis (muscle breakdown) or heat injury can cause sudden death for individuals with sickle cell ...

The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York City.

Writer/director Alireza Khatami's 'The Things You Kill' is a disquieting thriller set in Turkey, with shades of David Lynch ...