arts and culture
Arthurian legends, Cold War realpolitik and sexual politics in ‘Camelot’
July 31, 2024Set in medieval England, Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s Camelot, one of Broadway’s top musicals of all time, is as fabled as the legends this play is derived from.
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Albert Maltz’s anti-fascist masterpiece ‘The Cross and the Arrow’ gets timely reboot
July 30, 2024“One of the truly outstanding literary achievements of the war period,” a work that gave Maltz “new stature” as an artist.
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‘Into the Woods’: Enchanting fairy tales for grown-ups
July 29, 2024This superb revival of Into the Woods is a stellar show, that movingly ponders the meaning of life and all the chances we must take while we embark upon our journeys.
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Reactionary reflexivity: Sealing the iron dome on media coverage of Gaza, Part 2
July 25, 2024Nowhere is this hardening of the once playful strategy of reflexivity more apparent than in corporate media news which instead of alternating between illusion and reflexivity is instead utterly delusional while sealing itself off in a...
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Reactionary reflexivity: Sealing the iron dome on media coverage of Gaza, Part 1
July 24, 2024Here media reflexivity and post-colonialism go hand in hand, with both operating to sustain Western power as that power is rapidly decaying and becoming increasingly irrelevant.
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