Michael Berkowitz

LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz

• Culture

  

  ‘Waking in Havana’: Good works on the AIDS front in Cuba

  November 12, 2019 By Michael Berkowitz

  Elena Schwolsky’s new book Waking in Havana: A Memoir of AIDS and Healing in Cuba is a well-written, moving account of her work as a nurse in Cuba’s HIV/AIDS prevention program.

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• Culture

  

  ‘The Laundromat’: Getting the dirt out

  October 29, 2019 By Michael Berkowitz

  The Laundromat tells us and shows us that reform of America’s broken finance system cannot wait.

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• Culture

  

  ‘Lehman Trilogy’ explores the demise of a financial empire: Buyers beware!

  August 29, 2019 By Michael Berkowitz

  National Theatre’s The Lehman Trilogy, showing in theaters around the world, is a brilliant, tragic cautionary tale—that needs to come with a warning label!

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• Culture

  

  ‘Fight On’: Anti-socialist hysteria motivates conservative propaganda flick

  March 12, 2019 By Michael Berkowitz

  Donald Trump has a movie he’d like you to see.

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• Culture

  

  ‘My Brilliant Friend’: Two broke girls

  January 10, 2019 By Michael Berkowitz

  The brilliance of the series would seem to owe much to mid-20th-century Italian neorealist directors.

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• Culture

  

  ‘My Country No More’: PBS asks, Whose land is it?

  January 4, 2019 By Michael Berkowitz

  “We are just people who are losing their way of life and their land.”

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• Culture

  

  ‘Shoplifters’: New Japanese feature film shows how people survive

  December 12, 2018 By Michael Berkowitz

  Although it seems to roll out modestly as a simple tale of marginal people, its conclusion will force you to rethink central tenets of how individuals relate.

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• Politics

  

  ‘ACORN and the Firestorm’: Uprooted

  May 18, 2018 By Michael Berkowitz

  ACORN and the Firestorm provides an invaluable service by demonstrating the effectiveness of community organizing.

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