Culture
“The Handmaid’s Tale”: Us and Them
June 2, 2017The Gilead regime – rabidly anti-feminist by any measure – manages to foster a perverse version of solidarity among the handmaids.
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New opera version of “The Grapes of Wrath,” a modern masterpiece
June 1, 2017The Grapes of Wrath is rich in human characterization and detail, and expressed in an enchanting, emotional musical language.
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Artists vs. apparatchiks in Wajda’s last film “Afterimage”
May 31, 2017Wajda found a subject through which he could express his credo as an artiste—criticism of Stalinism.
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Elián, son of Cuba, among history’s most famous 5-year-olds
May 30, 2017Gonzalez became “a boy caught between two worlds.”
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Transgender opera “As One” gets transcendent Southern California premiere
May 26, 2017“We live on two poles of gender,” said one librettist. “Hopefully we can mess up those lines between them."
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