Culture

‘Crowns of Thorns’: A poetic response to the coronavirus crisis

May 18, 2020 By Peter Marcus

A new selection from working-class poet Peter Marcus.

‘Home Before Dark’ and fading patriarchal power

May 12, 2020 By Dennis Broe

It’s the first masterful series from Apple TV+.

‘Last Dance’: Face the music with Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls

May 11, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

As we sit in quarantine and practice physical distancing, with too little money and too much time on our hands, a masked nation turns its lonely eyes to . . . Michael Jordan.

‘Anonymous Man’: Astounding new choral CD on home, homelessness and history

May 8, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon

Perhaps the next time we see people living on the street they won’t appear so anonymous.

ZeroZeroZero and the global drug trade; #BlackAF and Black affluence

May 7, 2020 By Dennis Broe

ZeroZeroZero, a Sky, Canal+ and Amazon series based on the Roberto (Gomorrah) Saviano book, has two things on its mind.