Culture
The good, the bad and the ugly at Venice Film Festival 2019
September 4, 2019The film highlights the way the European high-level political and financial institutions are not about promoting but rather about neutralizing any democratic movement from below.
Read more‘Vita & Virginia’: Two British novelists’ love affair in new film
September 3, 2019Since her untimely death, British writer Virginia Woolf has become a feminist icon for her literary explorations into the subject of womanhood in contemporary society.
Read moreSeptember 1, 1939: In memory of poet W.H. Auden
August 30, 2019Homage to Clio, the title poem of W.H. Auden’s 1960 small book of light verse—the later, shorter poems—is where I found out about the ninth muse, the Muse of History.
Read morePrison classroom reflects white supremacy in new memoir
August 30, 2019The New Plantation: Lessons from Rikers Island: The title comes from Trask’s first day on the job.
Read morePaul Robeson Theatre Festival: Like ‘Ol’ Man River’ Robey keeps rolling along
August 30, 2019The 2019 Paul Robeson Theatre Festival took place Aug. 23-25 with the theme of Awakening the Past, Present and Future: A Retrospective.
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