Culture

The art of ‘The Heal,’ Sophocles’s ‘Philoctetes’ in a Malibu amphitheater

September 6, 2019 By Ed Rampell

The production, performed in front of an ancient Roman-style villa that is a repository of relics wrought contemporaneously when Sophocles created his dramas, is suffused with philosophical musings.

Peasant Bruegel: An appreciation of the Dutch realist painter

September 5, 2019 By Jenny Farrell

His art represents the early stages, the progressive, indeed revolutionary, element of bourgeois realism.

Second World, Second Sex: How the socialist women of the East shaped feminism

September 5, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky

The world’s workers in general—and women in particular—benefited from the “ideological tension” created by state socialism and its allies in the Third World.

The good, the bad and the ugly at Venice Film Festival 2019

September 4, 2019 By Dennis Broe

The film highlights the way the European high-level political and financial institutions are not about promoting but rather about neutralizing any democratic movement from below.

‘Vita & Virginia’: Two British novelists’ love affair in new film

September 3, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Since her untimely death, British writer Virginia Woolf has become a feminist icon for her literary explorations into the subject of womanhood in contemporary society.