Culture
Reading ‘Kairos’: Literary snapshot of life during socialist East Germany’s final days
May 23, 2024Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel about a young woman living through the end of the GDR has just won the International Booker Prize.
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‘Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy’ in world premiere
May 22, 2024“Mix-Mix” is an English translation of “Halo-Halo,” a dessert that’s a mixture of jellies, tapioca pearls, fruit, beans, corn, shaved ice, condensed milk and ice cream—an appropriate metaphor for the mixed cultures that came together as...
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Non-aligned movement featured at South East European Film Festival
May 21, 2024The award-winning Mila Turajlić expands the boundaries of conventional nonfiction films.
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‘Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation’
May 17, 2024When wealthy, Harvard-trained ultra-right Senator Tom Cotton described racial slavery as a “necessary evil” in 2020, he made two crucial admissions.
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Camille Claudel comes into her own in the Getty Museum’s major retrospective
May 16, 2024In recent decades the work of women artists, as a ripple effect of the worldwide women’s movement, has come more to the fore.
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