arts and culture
Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
September 21, 2020All Quiet on the Western Front has lost none of its power. It is an outstandingly sensitive depiction of the effect murderous warfare has on the human psyche. We still need books like this.
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‘Vida’ on Starz: Fighting gentrification ‘but with a little sex’
September 15, 2020All over the news today is what amounts to articles about a new kind of white flight, but this time which is also a COVID flight from cities to rural areas and the suburbs.
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‘Gather’: Despite America’s history of violence, Indigenous food sovereignty carries on
September 11, 2020Overall, what is powerful about Gather is that it doesn’t just focus on the devastation, but the rebuilding.
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‘The Boys’ take on corporate superheroes for hire in comic TV adaptation
September 9, 2020The Boys is rip-roaring action fun, but also a very dark comedic look at U.S. corporate capitalism and mass-media politics.
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‘Crash Landing on You’: An axis of evolution
September 8, 2020A romantic comedy about North Korea? The country that wants to bomb us back to the stone age?
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