arts and culture
75 years ago, Albert and Margaret Maltz showed us how to resist
January 14, 2025Essays from another time of looming fascism.
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Sally Rooney’s ‘Intermezzo’ marks a fictional turn toward a private comfort zone
January 10, 2025In her latest, fourth novel, Intermezzo, Sally Rooney continues her exploration of intimate relationships, albeit with a shift away from the clear political critique that characterized her earlier works.
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The Dark Ages are here again
January 9, 2025The latest Harry Palmer L.A. mystery thriller, The Dark Ages, is about censorship and repression in Hollywood in 1951 and its echo in America and the West today.
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Purists booed ‘Electric’ Bob Dylan, but Mike Gold loved him in People’s World
January 8, 2025“All you have to do is try to be as natural as Bob Dylan, let your hair grow long, sing when you feel like singing, sleep when you have to sleep, love, protest, be a natural...
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Mark Twain (1835-1910), anti-imperialist thinker for all time
January 8, 2025There’s still a goldmine of bounty left in Mark Twain’s collective work to educate, entertain, and embolden readers for untold centuries to come.
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