Culture
Artist Albrecht Dürer, born 1471, champion of the peasant class
May 19, 2021Albrecht Dürer was born 550 years ago, on May 21, 1471, during the Renaissance, a time of upheaval, that rang in the early modern age.
Read moreMike Gold, ‘Jews Without Money’ author, gets overdue recognition in new bio
May 18, 2021As biographers are wont to do, Patrick Chura exposes the reader to the days of his subject, offering not only facts and analysis, but the ability to see these through Gold’s eyes—to feel the sweat and...
Read moreMasterpiece cinema: BFI Player Classics streams 200-plus British movies
May 17, 2021The British Film Institute has launched a subscription video on-demand collection of more than 200 of the top U.K. movies for buffs across the pond in the colonies.
Read moreRichard Wright’s new novel ‘The Man Who Lived Underground’ surfaces
May 14, 2021The editors and manuscript readers at Harper found "The Man Who Lived Underground" unsettling; one of them described the novel’s first fifty pages, in which three white policemen torture an innocent black man, as “unbearable.”
Read moreNew play ‘Ursula’ about children at the U.S. border to stream on demand
May 14, 2021“We are thrilled to partner with Cara Mía to present this beautiful, touching, and important new work,” says Latino Theater Company artistic director José Luis Valenzuela.
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