Culture
‘Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom’: Learning life’s meaning in the remote Himalayas
January 25, 2022What Lunana lacks in modern technical amenities it more than makes up for with majestic, mountainous scenery .
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Sidney Poitier changed movies, and changed lives
January 24, 2022Sidney Poitier was the rare performer who really did change lives, who embodied possibilities once absent from the movies.
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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.
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Interfaith Tu B’Shvat seder for peace features Jewish and Arab voices
January 21, 2022Happy birthday to trees, happy birthday to trees….
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On ‘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.
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