Arts
China Miéville’s postmodern fantasies in “Three Moments of an Explosion”
July 5, 2016The contemporary British fantasist China Miéville's collection of short stories is a diverse mix of styles.
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Independence Day: Let America be America again
June 30, 2016In a time when demagogues try to convince us that America needs to be "great again," Hughes reminds us of the dream of what America could be.
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“Hunt for the Wilderpeople”: Outlandish outlaws in New Zealand’s Maori bush
June 30, 2016This is a banner week for South Seas Cinema, the film genre set and shot in the Pacific Islands.
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Coal and silk: Two impressive new documentaries
June 28, 2016As one historian puts it, "Labor relations in America have never been gentle."
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Black comedy “Armadillo Necktie” exposes open wound of U.S. in Iraq
June 24, 2016A new self-described "jet-black comedy" takes on the national American character at the apogee of its foreign "nation building" enterprise.
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