Culture
“Indignation”: A snapshot of 1950s social contradictions
August 16, 2016Dressed up as a coming of age love story, film is a tale individuals pushing up against the social, economic, and cultural limits of their time.
Read moreThis week in history: Spanish poet-playwright Federico García Lorca murdered
August 15, 2016In the beginning weeks of the Spanish Civil War, Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was murdered by fascist soldiers.
Read moreFlorence Foster Jenkins of the trachea: Go with the Flo
August 12, 2016Meryl Streep fully incarnates Jenkins, endowing the fleshy, flashy, flawed dowager with her full humanity.
Read more“Kindred”: Octavia Butler’s dark fantasy gets the graphic novel treatment
August 11, 2016The new illustrated adaptation of Butler's 1980s classic makes you feel what slavery was like.
Read more“Blueprint for Paradise”: A polished drama about Nazis for our time
August 9, 2016The ruins of the Murphy Ranch, an abandoned pre-WWII Nazi compound in Pacific Palisades, have inspired a new play.
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