Culture – Page 3 – People's World

A new year poem for Latin America, ‘La Paciente’

January 4, 2021 By Peter Lownds

Latin America lies on a hospital gurney after yet another amputation...

Two Women: ‘The Assistant’ and ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’

December 23, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

Seventeen-year-old Autumn is pregnant. When she goes to a crisis pregnancy center, she is shown an anti-abortion video and steered toward having the baby. With no resources and desperate to keep her plight secret from her...

The year of living digitally: Top 30 global TV series of 2020

December 23, 2020 By Dennis Broe

The biggest story in television this year was the rise of the streaming services, with Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV+, and NBCUniversal’s Peacock joining what was already the crowded field of Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu. This...

A pandemic ‘Nurse T’ tells her COVID-19 story in new published diary

December 22, 2020 By Tim Libretti

Reading A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary, particularly against prevalent media representations of healthcare workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, brought to mind for me the opening words of the sketch by the U.S. radical writer Jesús Colón,...

TV’s forgotten: Indigenous and working-class series

December 21, 2020 By Dennis Broe

Few series on television focus either on the Earth’s first inhabitants, the Indigenous, now mostly quartered in slums across the world, or on workers, their lives, and daily concerns. We’ll be discussing the series Mystery Road,...