Culture
Author Dan Hicks reveals the backstory of ‘contested objects’ in Western museums
March 18, 2021The role of museums in Western culture has been a conversation in art and academia for decades.
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Documentary ‘The Boys Who Said No!’ recalls anti-draft, anti-war movement
March 17, 2021A highly effective and moving new documentary about the young American men who refused to be sucked into the maw of the Selective Service System during the Vietnam War has just appeared.
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‘Making it’ in America as pure fantasy: Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Homeland Elegies: A Novel’
March 17, 2021The book jacket describes Homeland Elegies as “[p]art family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel.”
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Attractive chamber works by Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on new CD
March 16, 2021“Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an iconic, Afro-British composer and a descendent of freed slaves who fought for the British in the American Revolutionary War."
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Amy Poehler’s new film ‘Moxie’: Growing up female in 2020
March 12, 2021Amy Poehler’s new Netflix film Moxie is not perfect. But it is very, very good. It’s a smart, funny, entertaining look at how growing up female in 2020 is similar and different from growing up in...
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