arts and culture
‘A View from the Bridge’: It’s a Miller time, of rats and men
August 22, 2023Bridge is a searing exploration of troubled family dynamics, incestuous urges and repressed homosexuality, betrayal, as well as a dramatization of the plight of “illegal” immigrants.
Read more‘Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class’ in review
August 18, 2023Black Folks opens with a story about how and why some of her ancestors chose to leave their Southern homes in the early 20th century, a story that serves as a narrative thread throughout the book.
Read moreCelebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop with 5 conscious-raising albums
August 15, 2023History was made on Aug. 11, 1973, when Clive Campbell took to the stage at his sister’s back-to-school party in the Bronx.
Read more‘The Busing Battleground’ and ‘The Harvest’: An education in Black and white
August 15, 2023The Harvest and The Busing Battleground are not just historical artifacts. They are as much a primer as a requiem. Certainly they convey lessons in problematic experiments.
Read moreModern Yiddish publishing: New feminist horror stories by Elizabeth Schwartz
August 14, 2023Schwartz excels at word-painting the social environments she writes about.
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