Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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Culture
Cannes 2021: The best lack conviction, the worst filled with passionate intensity
July 12, 2021This year the entire festival bureaucracy has moved online, which caused much initial chaos.
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Culture
The crime novel post-confinement and post-BLM: The three-day plan
July 6, 2021
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Culture
The Colescott Chronicles Part 2: Expanding Black representation, critiquing consumerism and colonialism
June 25, 2021
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Culture
The Colescott Chronicles Part I: Breaking free of color blindness and abstract art
June 15, 2021One of the founding members of New Black Art just reaped the rewards of his painterly prowess. Robert Colescott’s monumental George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware recently sold for $15.3 million.
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Culture
Portuguese fascist prison novel speaks to the incarceration experience everywhere
June 10, 2021There is one thing that unites all of those in prison: “Whoever they are, they’re gonna wanna get out.”
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Culture
Varieties of working-class women: ‘Wanted,’ ‘Bitter Daisies’ and ‘Mare of Easttown’
June 1, 2021
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Culture
New book on the many faces of crime writer Raymond Chandler
May 7, 2021A new book by Ken Fuller, Raymond Chandler: The Man Behind the Mask, in its strongest moments concentrates on Chandler’s implied politics in his noir novels.
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News
Paris Commune at 150: Still going strong and challenging digital capitalism
April 28, 2021Karl Marx called it the first worker’s republic established in the history of humanity.
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