Arts
Films from forbidden lands
October 9, 2014People in the West rarely get to see films from North Korea, let alone Cuba or Vietnam. Film festivals are often the only source for cinema from the "forbidden" Communist countries.
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Whose land? Interview with an objective Israeli filmmaker
October 8, 2014Director Tamara Erde investigated both the Israeli and Palestinian public school systems, with access to teachers, students and administrators on both sides of the Wall.
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New documentaries in Toronto
October 8, 2014Documentaries at the Toronto International Film Festival come from all corners of the globe, covering a wide range of subjects, and many are of interest to the progressive community.
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“Standing in the Breach”: good politics and music from Jackson Browne
October 8, 2014Jackson Browne has released his 14th studio album. "Standing in the Breach" is the most political album in Browne's increasing leftward cultural and political career.
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Review: Smiling through the Apocalypse, Esquire in the 60s
October 7, 2014Esquire editor Harold Hayes was arguably to magazines what famous literary editor Maxwell Perkins (editor for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe) was to novels.
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