Culture
Brendan Behan on the centenary of his birth
February 7, 2023Brendan Behan was arguably one of the last writers to emerge from the Irish literary revival movement.
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‘Let It Be Morning,’ a stunningly powerful almost all-Palestinian Israeli film
February 2, 2023Let Let It Be Morning serve as yet another warning, a lovingly crafted, humanly noble alarum, of the Armageddon to come.
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Leftist ‘life hacks’ from Mike Gold’s farewell columns in ‘People’s Daily World’
February 1, 2023In the 1930s, he was a firebrand agitator writing in the pages of the Daily Worker. By the era of the ‘New Left,’ Mike Gold was at it again on the West Coast.
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‘Southern Girls’: A ‘woke’ play suitable for banning in today’s Florida
February 1, 2023“The playwrights who wrote this absolutely lived it. The play is very authentic.”
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Dispatch from war-torn Europe: A pared-down Vienna Christmas-New Year
January 31, 2023In more subtle ways Europe in general, and Austria’s capital city in particular, is showing signs of deterioration.
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