Culture
After getting government paycheck support, Opera Australia institutes mass layoffs
September 23, 2020As management slashes jobs, performers and members of the company declare: "No opera without us."
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‘The Wall of Mexico’: A new feature film about construction and deconstruction
September 22, 2020Virtually the entire action of this film takes place on the vast compound belonging to the Aristas, a Mexican-American family of unimaginable wealth and privilege.
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Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
September 21, 2020All Quiet on the Western Front has lost none of its power. It is an outstandingly sensitive depiction of the effect murderous warfare has on the human psyche. We still need books like this.
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Book review: Folk singers, the Communist Party, and the FBI, 1939-1956
September 18, 2020They were partisan. They chose sides. And their politics were well known, including to the FBI.
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‘Five Days, Five Nights’: Flight to freedom from fascist Portugal
September 16, 2020Álvaro Cunhal had a little secret. It was a good thing that he did.
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