Culture
‘Master Harold’…and the Boys: Theater review
April 21, 2026Athol Fugard's play seems to have dramatizes Frantz Fanon’s theories about the psychological impact of racism and colonialism on the human mind.
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‘Gathering Storm: A Story of the Black Belt’ book review
April 20, 2026Myra Page’s classic proletarian novel represents the complex, difficult unevenness between stated values and their partial expression through action.
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Spring TV preview: The good, the bad, and the bland
April 15, 2026Bland was the word this year for so much of what was on offer, though there were also really horrible series and a few exceptional ones.
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Revisiting ‘Waiting for Godot’ and the purpose of humanity after war
April 14, 2026This year marks the 120th anniversary of Samuel Beckett’s birth. A writer who fought against fascism and used his art to ask what, if anything, remains when everything else is gone.
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Goya’s ‘The Disasters of War’ and the aesthetics of terror
April 9, 2026March 30 marked the 280th anniversary of the birth of an artist who explored with equal intensity the horror of his era and terror as a psychological reaction and existential condition.
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