arts and culture
Online: Tobias Picker’s opera about ‘the Danish girl’ trans patient Lili Elbe
December 19, 2023Moviegoers back in 2015 who saw the film The Danish Girl may have first heard the story there of Lili Elbe, the first known recipient of gender-affirming surgery in the early 1930s, then uncharted, experimental medical...
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New book: U.S. ‘national security’ born from Anti-Asian racism and white supremacist ideology
December 19, 2023Menace to Empire shows how the racist foreign policy frameworks that drove U.S. operations and policies in the early twentieth century continue to shape today’s foreign and domestic conditions.
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The brutality of our tragedies: An interview with Brazilian novelist Fernando Bonassi
December 15, 2023With the novel Violence, Fernando Bonassi completes one of the most bruising trilogies in the last twenty years of Brazilian literature.
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Paul Lynch novel ‘Prophet Song’: A wake-up call for democracy
December 14, 2023Paul Lynch’s Cassandra call has touched a nerve among the middle classes. May it be a wakeup call.
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‘Maestro,’ the new biopic on Leonard Bernstein, reveals as much as conceals
December 13, 2023For what it covers, as a non-linear human interest story that happens to involve some very well-known people, Maestro is magisterial and wonderful.
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