Culture

‘Minor detail’: Israeli military atrocities exposed, in the form of a novel

November 13, 2023 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Palestinian author Adania Shibli’s novel Minor Details reproduces the ordinariness, the bland everyday routine of Israeli military occupation on every page.

‘Lines in the Dust’ dramatizes endemic race discrimination in public education

November 9, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon

Numerous milestones marked with the premiere production of this play.

SAG-AFTRA strike ends with tentative agreement on three-year pact

November 9, 2023 By Mark Gruenberg

Some 160,000 who struck Hollywood studios, Netflix, Broadway and TV are back on the job.

Tactical questions abound in new book, ‘A People’s History of Grand Rapids’

November 8, 2023 By Joel Wendland-Liu

The author has rescued lost voices in the history of this Michigan city, but do his anarchist leanings lead him astray?

AFI FEST 2023: Four capsule reviews

November 6, 2023 By Ed Rampell

Four film reviews from AFI Fest.