reviews
New book offers no optimism for a free Puerto Rico
November 12, 2015Nelson A. Denis looks not at earlier colonial history, but rather measures taken to subdue Nationalists before and after their 1950 uprising.
Read more“Moby-Dick”: Melville’s masterpiece gets an operatic treatment
November 2, 2015Although it has some fishy alterations, this is a mind-blowing production.
Read more“99 Homes” : shelter skelter
October 29, 2015Writer Director Ramin Bahrani has effectively recast hell as the foreclosure real estate market.
Read more“Scott and Hem”: An imagined second act of the crack up
October 27, 2015Mark St. Germain's "Scott and Hem" imagines a 1937 F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meetup in Hollywood.
Read moreHerbert Aptheker biography is political narrative of remarkable man
October 8, 2015Murrell paints a vivid, detailed picture of Aptheker's political life and for this he should be commended.
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