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The Canadian artist who transformed the Vancouver art scene.

The unconventional story of three women and their unconventional lives in the early twentieth century.

Sam Mendez’s Skyfall, David O. Russell’s Silver Lining Playbook, Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina, Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone, Katheryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty.

Breaking the Silence’s Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000–2010.

The merger of Penguin and Random House is part of a trend that has been deadly for literary authors and serious nonfiction.

How the American Moses became America’s first spiritual manager in the wilderness of Scripture-infused capitalism.

Did postwar population transfers complete a project of ethnic cleansing started by Hitler?

Geoeconomic arguments about jobs smuggle in neoliberal economics under the cover of geography.