Culture
‘American Utopia’: Still making sense
January 4, 2021Byrne and director Spike Lee have combined to reexamine themes they both have explored individually over the years.
Read moreA new year poem for Latin America, ‘La Paciente’
January 4, 2021Latin America lies on a hospital gurney after yet another amputation...
Read moreTwo Women: ‘The Assistant’ and ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’
December 23, 2020Seventeen-year-old Autumn is pregnant. When she goes to a crisis pregnancy center, she is shown an anti-abortion video and steered toward having the baby. With no resources and desperate to keep her plight secret from her...
Read moreThe year of living digitally: Top 30 global TV series of 2020
December 23, 2020The biggest story in television this year was the rise of the streaming services, with Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV+, and NBCUniversal’s Peacock joining what was already the crowded field of Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu. This...
Read moreA pandemic ‘Nurse T’ tells her COVID-19 story in new published diary
December 22, 2020Reading A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary, particularly against prevalent media representations of healthcare workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, brought to mind for me the opening words of the sketch by the U.S. radical writer Jesús Colón,...
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