Culture
Darko Suvin’s fiery poetry and ‘Insubordinate Essays’
June 30, 2022In 2016, at the age of 86, Darko Suvin did something that would have taxed the energies of someone half his age.
Read morePlains, trains and automobiles: ‘Snowpiercer’ vs. ‘Lincoln Lawyer’
June 28, 2022How can we contrast Snowpiercer’s people’s transport vs. Lincoln Lawyer’s luxuriating while the planet burns?
Read morePeter Lownds explains how and why he translated a recent Brazilian novel
June 27, 2022International Publishers has just released Never-Ending Youth, a recent novel by Northeast Brazilian writer Urariano Mota, in Peter Lownds’s translation.
Read more‘Dark Winds’: Solving an American mystery
June 27, 2022Sharp writing and strong acting keep Dark Winds from the tired soap opera that recent neo-Westerns like the popular Yellowstone saga became mired in.
Read more‘Kinderland’: A documentary visit to two century-old secular Jewish summer camps
June 24, 2022The film short Kinderland tells the story of two camps in upstate New York that have cultivated social activists for almost a century and are still in existence today.
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