Culture
Melancholy Danes: A Scandinavian ‘Sunset Boulevard’ in Bille August’s ‘The Pact’
February 11, 2022The 73-year-old Danish helmer’s almost two-hour The Pact is a thought-provoking, moody movie.
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“Yes I said yes”: James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100
February 9, 2022Onward to Ulysses’ second century!
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‘Border Crossings’: Thirteen stories about covert journeys in service to Portuguese freedom
February 4, 2022These thirteen stories about covert journeys in service to world socialism reveal the risks and rewards of “underground work,” a branch of Party activity that, as the author reminds us, was fundamental to the 20th-century liberation...
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‘The Wayland Rudd Collection’: When state power was harnessed to combat racism
February 4, 2022Imagine a world where a powerful global entity, leader of a worldwide bloc of socialist nations, poured its intellectual, artistic, journalistic, and organizational resources into the fight against racism and national chauvinism. Such was the Soviet...
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‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’: Rediscovering the wheel
February 3, 2022The films of Japanese film director and screenwriter Ryusuke Hamaguchi lodge in your brain and heart like small incendiary devices, ticking from his self-awareness toward yours. What did the character mean by that? How does that...
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