Michael Berkowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz
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‘Severance’: Alienation and its discontents
May 13, 2022It’s only a job, not something that affects one’s actual self-worth or shapes their entire lives. Or is it?
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For artist Alice Neel, people always came first
April 4, 2022Virtually ignored for much of her early career, Alice Neel’s life and work are beacons for socially conscious artists, especially women.
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‘Zoot Suit Riots’: guerras culturales en tiempos de guerra en Los Ángeles
March 25, 2022El caso ha pasado a la historia como un hito en la expresión del miedo racial y la presunción de culpabilidad. La policía y la prensa inflamaron las tensiones raciales enfatizando las diferencias culturales de la...
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‘Zoot Suit Riots’: Culture wars in wartime Los Angeles
March 25, 2022Tovares deftly weaves the context around the resulting social upheaval, helping us understand the moral ambiguities of Los Angeles’ corrupt government, notorious police force, get-rich-quick land development schemes, and the diverse population trying to emerge from...
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Filmic gifts of Gugu: ‘Fast Color’ and ‘The Girl Before’
March 10, 2022One can only hope that Gugu will continue to use her extraordinary gifts, gracing our screens to advance such causes and further our understanding and action.
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‘Yellowstone’: Low Noon, or How the Western was Lost
February 15, 2022The writers shifted focus to an idealized cowboy lifestyle which Sheridan located in Texas—where a man could still be “free.”
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‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’: Rediscovering the wheel
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Challenging the poverty of words: Interview with progressive poet Frederick Pollack
January 12, 2022People’s World culture writer Michael Berkowitz asks about socialism, history, the future, and poetry’s role in all of those.
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