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‘The Serpent’: An Edenic experimental classic returns to the live stage
October 27, 2021Instead of telling a single tale, in The Serpent the dozen multi-culti, mostly young members of the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble stage a series of vignettes with an improvisational vibe.
Read moreIn new play, St. Clare of Assisi emerges from the Occupy movement
October 26, 2021LOS ANGELES — The Echo Theater Company’s world premiere production of Chiara Atik’s Poor Clare has just opened, delayed 19 months after the originally scheduled March 2020 premiere. We didn’t know what we were missing, but...
Read moreHistorian Enrique Rivera says the history of capitalism needs a fresh narrative
October 25, 2021International Publishers in New York has recently issued The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution by the young scholar Enrique S. Rivera. As a fellow student of Latin American history (a long...
Read moreThe 2021 Toronto International Film Festival: ‘Attica’ revisited
October 22, 2021Law and order vs. anarchy was the perceived battle, but the evil of mass incarceration was exposed and prison reform was put on the agenda.
Read moreLiam O’Flaherty and the Irish Free State on its centennial
October 21, 2021Liam O’Flaherty is one of the foremost Irish fiction writers of the 20th century. Like none other, he commented on the times as they were unfolding.
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