Culture
‘A Case for the Existence of God’ theater review: Well-crafted but ill-named play
September 11, 2026This is an excellent character study of two different yet similar men that is about friendship and family and loneliness.
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Avante! Festival at 50: Portuguese Communists celebrate five decades of democracy and struggle
September 8, 2026Hundreds of thousands of Communists, workers, youth, and their allies converged this past weekend for a grand gala of culture and politics.
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Poem: ‘Facts of Life’
August 13, 2026A poem on the facts of life, from love to class struggle.
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Motown music: Union-made in the U.S.A.
August 13, 2026Along with the auto industry, these songs put Detroit on the world map.
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Titian and the crisis of Renaissance humanism
August 12, 2026His long career coincides with and sheds light on the early capitalist era. Titian's revolutionary technique emerged in response to the pressures of commerce, war, political reaction and plague.
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