Culture
“Eat With Me”: You may be hungry an hour after this tasty coming-out tale
June 19, 2014"Eat With Me" alternates between being an enjoyable, poignant coming-out comedy drama and a paint-or rather film-by numbers story.
Read morePublic intimacy in the new South Africa
June 19, 2014"Public Intimacy" is not outwardly political, but it raises questions about the legacy not only of apartheid but of the freedom struggle itself.
Read morePiketty, The Wall Street Journal, and rational conservatives
June 18, 2014"Capital in the 21st Century" has almost had the effect of a tsunami on economic thinking in the U.S. after its translation into English washed up on our monoglot shores.
Read moreRuby Dee, 91: Iconic actress, civil rights activist
June 12, 2014Ruby Dee, an acclaimed actress and civil rights activist whose versatile career spanned stage, radio television and film, has died at age 91.
Read more“Ida”: Women discover socialist Poland and themselves
June 9, 2014It's a road picture, as the two women go back to their family's homestead and figure out what happened.
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