The 2020 nominees for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature showcase a wide array of topics, from the injustices of incarceration to the blossoming friendship between a man and an octopus.

The snake is a word unwriting itself.

Now they are at the mercy of the merciless.

Douglas Stuart’s novel is an appropriate winner of the Booker Prize for the desolate year in which March seems never to have ended.

The veteran novelist has an esteemed track record of finely crafted stories that explore the human propensity to sow injury rather than beneficence.

In the poems of 'Delta Tears,' Philip Kolin blends ecotheology and Scripture with pleas for social justice.