Culture

Black women laundry workers finally get their due as organizers and leaders

August 9, 2021 By Beatrice Lumpkin

As a history of laundry workers and their 108-year struggle for justice from 1912 to 2020, Jenny Carson's book comes at an important time.

Bezos in space: When the world isn’t enough, exploit the whole galaxy

August 4, 2021 By Ken Pierce

The year is 2075. The location is the Amazon Mars Fulfillment Center.

Wilder’s classic Our Town gets 21st century treatment—Race, class, and all

August 3, 2021 By Ed Rampell

In 'The Last, Best Small Town', playwright John Guerra has adapted Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, resetting the turn-of-the-last-century Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire at turn-of-the-21st-century Fillmore, California.

Battle for the soul of popular media: COVID, Cannes, and conglomerates

August 2, 2021 By Dennis Broe

What Cannes tell us about the future of watching film in theaters, on TVs and on computers.

‘Shuggie Bain’, tale of Scottish working-class life under Thatcherism, wins Booker Prize

July 30, 2021 By Jenny Farrell

Alcoholism and its effect on people and communities is explored from the perspective of a loving and protective child, who observes all the secrecies, shame, and suicidal self-hate it brings.