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An excerpt from ‘A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of BR Ambedkar’, by Ashok Gopal.

The best books about movies and filmmaking. If you want to learn about the behind-the-scenes of movies, these are for you.

POSTCARDS, FAXES, AND EMAIL PRINTOUTS lie wanly in a vitrine. A plywood shelving unit holds rows of informational leaflets. One gallery wall is plastered with graphs and charts. Another is covered in hundreds of seemingly identical photographs. On a bank of video monitors, talking heads are explaining something. In a darkened corner, a slide projector clunks slowly through a carousel of images. Nearby, a 16-mm film whirs alongside a soporific voice-over. An illuminated table is covered in papers and newspaper clippings marked up with Post-its. Every object on display is accompanied by a length...

Dr. Lonnie Burnett, president of the University of Mobile, discusses the school's pursuit of excellence and how it fits into the landscape of Mobile.

Zheng Chaolin (1901-98), the veteran leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese Trotskyist movement, devoted his entire life to the cause of the liberation of the Chinese workers and peasants. Now at last Zheng Chaolin’s Selected Writings have been translated and published. Gregor Benton, who translated and edited these texts and Prophets Unarmed (2015), deserves huge praise for making the writings available in English.