Patrick Chura
LATEST ARTICLES BY Patrick Chura
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Books
‘Popo and Fifina’: A love letter to Haiti from Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps
October 31, 2024
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Culture
Albert Maltz’s anti-fascist masterpiece ‘The Cross and the Arrow’ gets timely reboot
July 30, 2024“One of the truly outstanding literary achievements of the war period,” a work that gave Maltz “new stature” as an artist.
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Culture
Michael Wilson’s ‘Salt of the Earth’ script, miracle of the blacklist era
July 1, 2024Salt of the Earth was the most daring script of Michael Wilson’s career.
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Culture
Albert Maltz’s long-suppressed civil rights novel is rediscovered—and still relevant
January 23, 2024A Long Day in a Short Life, just released in a beautiful new paperback edition by Alma Books, is available for the first time since 1957. You’ve probably never heard of it.
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Culture
Review: ‘A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy’
December 21, 2023Thrall’s telling of Abed’s story enumerates and catalogues the poisonous indignities of life under apartheid.
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Culture
After 70 years, Albert Maltz’s ‘The Morrison Case’ gets its U.S. premiere
November 3, 2023The final words of the drama prompt the audience to think about patriotism.
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Politics
A century ago, Zitkála-Šá exposed an orgy of atrocities against Native Americans
July 17, 2023In 1923, a Dakota-born writer-activist traveled through Oklahoma to investigate abuses against the Choctaw, Creek, and other tribes. What she found was appalling.
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Culture
‘The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist 75 Years Later’: A review
June 7, 2023Throughout this volume, there’s never a doubt that Ceplair writes with honesty, fairness, empathy, and deep knowledge.
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