Culture
The bombing of Cubana Flight 455: Interview with filmmaker Enrique Berumen
June 11, 2021On October 6, 1976, Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was bombed by CIA-trained Cuban exiles. A new documentary is bringing the story to the world.
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‘Altitude Not Attitude’: A freewheeling, wheelchair bound-for-glory story on film
June 11, 2021For the first time since the COVID lockdown began, after about 15 months of streaming cinema online, your peripatetic film critic finally attended his first screening in person.
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Portuguese fascist prison novel speaks to the incarceration experience everywhere
June 10, 2021There is one thing that unites all of those in prison: “Whoever they are, they’re gonna wanna get out.”
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‘Caste’: From billionaires to ‘untouchables’—a way to understand oppression
June 8, 2021Wilkerson is a skilled storyteller and her book's stories of racist oppression should leave those in the dominant caste hanging their heads in shame. But it's missing something: the class struggle.
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New ‘Go for Broke’ stamp honors Japanese American service members in WWII
June 7, 2021For a time, these second-generation Japanese Americans, known as Nisei, were denied the opportunity to fight despite being American citizens.
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