Culture

Best-selling sci-fi and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin, 88

January 30, 2018 By Combined Sources

The award-winning and best-selling science fiction writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her Earthsea books has died.

“The Chinese Wall”: A 1946 satire on the futility of wall building

January 30, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

Like the IWW’s Little Red Book of songs, it aims to “fan the flames of discontent” with wit and righteous anger, and move a mute audience toward action.

Harold Pinter’s dark comedy “The Hothouse” menacingly amuses in L.A.

January 29, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

The acting is ace, the material challenging, the production rare.

2018 Grammys get political

January 29, 2018 By Michelle Zacarias

From Black Lives Matter and #MeToo to mental health and imperialism -- the 2018 Grammys were chock full of political critique.

Carry On: A poem for Jim Baldridge

January 26, 2018 By Les Bayless

Like everyone else, activists too come to the end of our time on Earth. Those who are left to mourn seek comfort where they can find it, perhaps most of all in acknowledging lasting influences, enduring...