Culture
Novelist Thomas Mann gets a novel treatment in Colm Tóibín’s ‘The Magician’
January 24, 2022Tóibín creates the world of Mann very well and does justice to his times.
Read moreInterfaith Tu B’Shvat seder for peace features Jewish and Arab voices
January 21, 2022Happy birthday to trees, happy birthday to trees….
Read moreOn ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth,’ prompted by film director Joel Coen’s latest iteration
January 21, 2022Of all Shakespeare’s tragedies, Macbeth is perhaps the most strikingly modern.
Read moreWho killed JFK? Stone’s latest assassination documentary reveals more hidden secrets
January 14, 2022The same right-wing extremism that many, including Stone, believe was behind the Kennedy assassination (and coup) is driving the real-time coup by the Trump MAGA GOP today.
Read moreChallenging the poverty of words: Interview with progressive poet Frederick Pollack
January 12, 2022People’s World culture writer Michael Berkowitz asks about socialism, history, the future, and poetry’s role in all of those.
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