arts and culture
Documentary ‘The Boys Who Said No!’ recalls anti-draft, anti-war movement
March 17, 2021A highly effective and moving new documentary about the young American men who refused to be sucked into the maw of the Selective Service System during the Vietnam War has just appeared.
Read more‘Making it’ in America as pure fantasy: Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Homeland Elegies: A Novel’
March 17, 2021The book jacket describes Homeland Elegies as “[p]art family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel.”
Read moreAttractive chamber works by Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on new CD
March 16, 2021“Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an iconic, Afro-British composer and a descendent of freed slaves who fought for the British in the American Revolutionary War."
Read moreJohn Keats – A Revolutionary Romantic
February 11, 2021John Keats is one of the greatest writers in English. His revolutionary vision reaches far into the future.
Read moreAnne Feeney (1951-2021): Wherever there’s a fight, she’ll be there
February 10, 2021Truth telling is tough, but Anne’s music brought that to life and put it on the stage.
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