Culture
This week in women’s history: Poet-novelist-activist Marge Piercy turns 80
March 28, 2016Piercy has written 17 novels, including bestsellers, and 19 volumes of poetry.
Read more“The Americans”: Hostility between two world powers in new episode
March 25, 2016We return to larger considerations and smaller links in this drama between Philip and Elizabeth, and their loving, yet emotionally torn daughter.
Read moreNew opera “Fallujah”: Heartbreaking look at war and PTSD online now
March 23, 2016It is the first opera written about the Iraq War, and it is highly worthwhile.
Read moreBook review: “Confronting Black Jacobins”
March 22, 2016Gerald Horne writes that the 1804 Haitian Revolution "was so profound that it may require an entire school of historians to take its true measure."
Read moreNew play confronts Alaskan Native and Caucasian worlds
March 21, 2016In this play, an angry teenager from a troubled home in Juneau is sent to live and work with his Tlingit grandparents in a remote fishing village.
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