Culture
‘Neither Wolf Nor Dog’ is now a quietly powerful Indigenous feature film
September 9, 2019The film has the aura of authenticity indelibly woven into its fiber.
Read moreBeyond the music: Portugal’s Avante! festival combines culture and Marxist politics
September 9, 2019Its musical lineup could rival the profit-driven Coachella, but this jamboree is embedded with the spirit of resistance and anti-fascism.
Read moreThe art of ‘The Heal,’ Sophocles’s ‘Philoctetes’ in a Malibu amphitheater
September 6, 2019The production, performed in front of an ancient Roman-style villa that is a repository of relics wrought contemporaneously when Sophocles created his dramas, is suffused with philosophical musings.
Read morePeasant Bruegel: An appreciation of the Dutch realist painter
September 5, 2019His art represents the early stages, the progressive, indeed revolutionary, element of bourgeois realism.
Read moreSecond World, Second Sex: How the socialist women of the East shaped feminism
September 5, 2019The world’s workers in general—and women in particular—benefited from the “ideological tension” created by state socialism and its allies in the Third World.
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