arts and culture – Page 95

Novelist Thomas Mann gets a novel treatment in Colm Tóibín’s ‘The Magician’

January 24, 2022 By Jenny Farrell

Tóibín creates the world of Mann very well and does justice to his times.

Interfaith Tu B’Shvat seder for peace features Jewish and Arab voices

January 21, 2022 By Special to People’s World

Happy birthday to trees, happy birthday to trees….

On ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth,’ prompted by film director Joel Coen’s latest iteration

January 21, 2022 By Jenny Farrell

Of all Shakespeare’s tragedies, Macbeth is perhaps the most strikingly modern.

Blues singer Bessie Smith shines in a new novel in memoir form

January 7, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon

If Bessie Smith’s story itself is an American phenomenon worthy of recapitulating in any number of artistic forms, it’s as a writer that Crittendon shines.

Anti-fascist lessons from a blacklisted Jewish Communist

January 6, 2022 By Patrick Chura

With hate crimes on the rise and democracy in crisis, the literature we study in schools has new purpose.