arts and culture
The brutality of our tragedies: An interview with Brazilian novelist Fernando Bonassi
December 15, 2023With the novel Violence, Fernando Bonassi completes one of the most bruising trilogies in the last twenty years of Brazilian literature.
Read morePaul Lynch novel ‘Prophet Song’: A wake-up call for democracy
December 14, 2023Paul Lynch’s Cassandra call has touched a nerve among the middle classes. May it be a wakeup call.
Read more‘Maestro,’ the new biopic on Leonard Bernstein, reveals as much as conceals
December 13, 2023For what it covers, as a non-linear human interest story that happens to involve some very well-known people, Maestro is magisterial and wonderful.
Read moreEnglish language world stage premiere of ‘Insulted. Belarus’: Agitprop in Santa Monica
December 12, 2023Could there be a economy where the collectivity of the people own the principal industries of the land yet where political and civic life is democratic in practice as well as in theory?
Read more‘Rye Lane’: A rom com with aplomb!
December 11, 2023The film’s multicultural and working-class characters are smart, self-aware to a fault, but subject to the same emotional relationship turbulence as Caucasian and middle-class couples.
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