Culture

‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’: Probing the souls of young Catholic conservatives

August 25, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon

Perhaps as many questions are left unanswered as settled, but bottom line, this is one play not to be missed.

Novel ‘Strumpet City’ depicts 1913 Dublin lockout, Irish proletariat’s first great class struggle

August 25, 2023 By Jenny Farrell

Though it is plagued by major gaps when it comes to portraying the struggle for national liberation going on at the same time, James Plunkett’s book is still a major read.

Arise, Africa! Roar, China!: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century

August 24, 2023 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Historian Gao Yunxiang documents the experiences of five individuals—W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Liu Liangmo, Si-lan Chen Leyda, and Langston Hughes—through the lens of anti-imperialist working-class struggles for freedom.

‘Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention & Resistance,’ a book review

August 23, 2023 By Jamal Rich

Kovalik does a great job tracing U.S. interventionism in Nicaragua and its attempts to “claim” the land and resources through its imperialist Monroe Doctrine approach.

‘A View from the Bridge’: It’s a Miller time, of rats and men

August 22, 2023 By Ed Rampell

Bridge is a searing exploration of troubled family dynamics, incestuous urges and repressed homosexuality, betrayal, as well as a dramatization of the plight of “illegal” immigrants.