Michael Berkowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz
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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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‘Drive My Car’: It’s the journey
December 28, 2021Writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi has fashioned a brilliant study of relationships and love, need and understanding.
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‘Normal People’: Love among the ruins
November 29, 2021Rooney et al have created a masterpiece.
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‘Maid’ on Netflix: Class struggle on the small screen
November 12, 2021Clearly, we need more stories about how we live in order for us to build back better a new society.
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‘The Unusual Suspects’: Round them up!
September 13, 2021Unusual Suspects is also notable for its clear-eyed observations on the class dynamics between servants.
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‘The White Lotus’ (HBO) and ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ (Hulu): Hot tub hegemony!
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‘Civil War’: An American contest that has never come to an end
August 27, 2021That is one of the main takeaways from this project: Even historical fact has a hard time dislodging hardened, though discredited opinion.
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‘Dead Pigs’: Where do they come from and where do they go?
August 11, 2021“The Sixth Generation” of Chinese filmmakers continue to shed light on the social maladies that have accompanied their nation’s shift toward a self-described “socialist market economy.”
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