Culture
A Bloody Chicago welcome, in this week’s ‘The Americans’
May 14, 2018Sometimes, even though a mission is thoroughly hopeless from the start, you still soldier through to the thankless end.
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Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ is a powerful posthumous act of resistance
May 11, 2018"If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”—Zora Neale Hurston
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I was curious, so I saw ‘The Death of Stalin’
May 11, 2018Perhaps Marx was right when he wrote that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce.
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‘Blues in the Night’ goes low down to lift you high
May 11, 2018Blues are the cry of a people in pain, and new verses are written every day.
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‘Cardboard Piano’ melds themes of intolerance, war, homophobia, and bad religion
May 10, 2018Does forgiveness mean the same thing for the forgiver and the forgiven? Perhaps not.
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