Culture
Book 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.
Read more“Spies Are Forever”: When genres collide
March 18, 2016The conventions of the espionage thriller meet the attributes of the musical, with lots of comedy along the way.
Read moreSpies, lies, and glanders: “The Americans” season four premiere
March 18, 2016Season four of FX's The Americans begins with a troubling image from character Philip Jennings' past.
Read more“Rosenkavalier”: A still-felt operatic kiss to a dying empire
March 17, 2016"The Chevalier of the Rose," which premiered in Dresden in 1911, is Richard Strauss's best known and most loved opera.
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