arts and culture – Page 38

‘The Man Who Changed Colors’: A multi-layered working-class suspense thriller

August 29, 2023 By John Bachtell

Fletcher vividly depicts working-class life in New Bedford, the string of other working-class communities along the Massachusetts coast, and the dangerous work conditions in the shipyard.

‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’: Probing the souls of young Catholic conservatives

August 25, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon

Perhaps as many questions are left unanswered as settled, but bottom line, this is one play not to be missed.

‘Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention & Resistance,’ a book review

August 23, 2023 By Jamal Rich

Kovalik does a great job tracing U.S. interventionism in Nicaragua and its attempts to “claim” the land and resources through its imperialist Monroe Doctrine approach.

‘A View from the Bridge’: It’s a Miller time, of rats and men

August 22, 2023 By Ed Rampell

Bridge 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.

‘Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class’ in review

August 18, 2023 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Black 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.