Culture – Page 236 – People's World

‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ and ‘Ham on Rye’: Odds and ends

January 15, 2021 By Michael Berkowitz

Both Ham on Rye and I’m Thinking of Ending Things deal with the tensions of young America’s uncertain future.

Chicago’s HotHouse presents the Havana Jazz Festival, 5 nights of sizzling music

January 14, 2021 By Special to People’s World

Their five-night online program features both Chicago legends and Cuban superstars in a two-hour presentation of all new material created for this exclusive event.

Echo Theater Company offers readings of new plays about sexuality and identity

January 11, 2021 By Special to People’s World

The Echo Theater Company, dedicated to creating new work for the theater, presents LABFest 2021, a virtual reading festival of three new plays.

Compelling account of inspirational Black activist Claudia Jones in new booklet

January 8, 2021 By Morning Star

David Horsley’s focus is on Jones’s life in advancing class, race, and gender resistance to the racist system of imperialism in what George Jackson called “the belly of the beast.”

New book: Indonesia was model for anti-communist massacres, U.S. complicity

January 7, 2021 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

In many places, to whisper “Jakarta” or scrawl the word on public surfaces served as a warning to activists.