Culture – Page 173 – People's World

Sidney Poitier changed movies, and changed lives

January 24, 2022 By Combined Sources

Sidney Poitier was the rare performer who really did change lives, who embodied possibilities once absent from the movies.

Novelist Thomas Mann gets a novel treatment in Colm Tóibín’s ‘The Magician’

January 24, 2022 By Jenny Farrell

Tóibín creates the world of Mann very well and does justice to his times.

Interfaith Tu B’Shvat seder for peace features Jewish and Arab voices

January 21, 2022 By Special to People’s World

Happy birthday to trees, happy birthday to trees….

On ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth,’ prompted by film director Joel Coen’s latest iteration

January 21, 2022 By Jenny Farrell

Of all Shakespeare’s tragedies, Macbeth is perhaps the most strikingly modern.

Who killed JFK? Stone’s latest assassination documentary reveals more hidden secrets

January 14, 2022 By John Bachtell

The same right-wing extremism that many, including Stone, believe was behind the Kennedy assassination (and coup) is driving the real-time coup by the Trump MAGA GOP today.