Culture

‘The Man Who Changed Colors’: A multi-layered working-class suspense thriller

August 29, 2023 By John Bachtell

Fletcher vividly depicts working-class life in New Bedford, the string of other working-class communities along the Massachusetts coast, and the dangerous work conditions in the shipyard.

‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ are a problem; so are those south, east, and west

August 28, 2023 By Robert Reich

“Rich Men North of Richmond” expresses class resentment with words and music evocative of Woody Guthrie. But Guthrie aimed his fire at economic elites that oppressed hardworking Americans; Oliver Anthony has people looking in the other...

‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’: Probing the souls of young Catholic conservatives

August 25, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon

Perhaps as many questions are left unanswered as settled, but bottom line, this is one play not to be missed.

Novel ‘Strumpet City’ depicts 1913 Dublin lockout, Irish proletariat’s first great class struggle

August 25, 2023 By Jenny Farrell

Though it is plagued by major gaps when it comes to portraying the struggle for national liberation going on at the same time, James Plunkett’s book is still a major read.

Arise, Africa! Roar, China!: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century

August 24, 2023 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Historian Gao Yunxiang documents the experiences of five individuals—W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Liu Liangmo, Si-lan Chen Leyda, and Langston Hughes—through the lens of anti-imperialist working-class struggles for freedom.