Culture
Auschwitz, a poem
January 24, 2020The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Read moreWhat the Constitution means to everyone living in America
January 23, 2020Provocative, absorbing and attention-grabbing in every way, if the Constitution means anything to you, see What the Constitution Means to Me.
Read more‘Many May Not Return’: An interview with two actors
January 21, 2020LONG BEACH, Calif.—The anti-war play Many May Not Return, by David Trujillo, touches on current political issues and global events, such as this being an election year, the recent assassination in Iraq of Iranian General Qassem...
Read moreWorld premiere ‘Sunday Dinner’: Family dysfunction writ large on a small stage
January 17, 2020They’re all there, every one of them a character and a half. The Materas are one family you won’t soon forget.
Read moreHow Soviet books brought literacy and socialist culture to the Third World
January 16, 2020For millions of young readers in the Third World, Soviet and Eastern European literature was an inexpensive window into a world largely beyond reach.
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