arts and culture
‘Breaking’ review: Powerfully intense film exposes systemic hardships for U.S. veterans
August 24, 2022Cannon fodder: Gripping film puts on full display the systemic hardships veterans face once they’ve been discarded after fighting U.S. imperialism’s wars.
Read more‘Lavender Men’: A theatrical fantasia on the (likely) gayness of Abraham Lincoln
August 10, 2022Has America already had its first (and second) gay president?
Read more‘Maelstrom Over the Killing Fields’: Dire underdevelopment and the Filipino national idea
August 9, 2022It explores another primary focus of San Juan’s work: the literary struggle to develop a national popular Filipino consciousness under the duress of U.S. neocolonialism.
Read moreBarbara Kingsolver’s ‘Another America’: Poems in an updated bilingual edition
August 4, 2022“I came to the Southwest expecting cactus, wide open spaces, and adventure. I found, instead, another whole America."
Read morePortrait of ‘Fighter’ Emmy Lou Packard at Richmond Art Center
August 3, 2022Emmy Lou Packard: Artist of Conscience is a stunning if overdue, retrospective exhibition of an artist largely ignored in her lifetime by critics.
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