Culture
‘Fallout’: Who wasted the Wasteland?
May 2, 2024Unlike other disaster-based games that have fallen by the wayside, this show makes real the pernicious threat of late capitalism.
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May Day Greetings Book 2024: Save democracy, stop the genocide
April 30, 2024Check out what our readers and supporters have to say on International Workers Day.
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‘H*tler’s Tasters’: Four young women waiting for Adolf in expressionistic, absurdist play
April 30, 2024LOS ANGELES – Written by Los Angeles playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks, the uninterrupted genre-defying 85-minute play H*tler’s Tasters opened April 27, and I was eager to see it. Brooks reimagines the historical protocol at Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair...
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Dark stories for dark times: The 2024 crime novel
April 29, 2024This year the Quais du Polar in Lyon was marked by the intrusion into the spine of the novels by the real-world problems and catastrophes going on around the festival.
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‘The Sympathizer’: Not sympathetic enough
April 26, 2024HBO’s The Sympathizer, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, opens with a quote: “All wars are fought twice, once on the battlefield and the second time in memory.”
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