Patrick Chura
LATEST ARTICLES BY Patrick Chura
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The cowboy and the communist: Why Frank Sinatra picked a fight with John Wayne
December 4, 2025Part of the Hollywood Ten, Albert Maltz had the "dubious honor" of being blacklisted twice when John Wayne and others in Hollywood targeted his working relationship with Frank Sinatra.
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75 years ago, Albert and Margaret Maltz showed us how to resist
January 14, 2025Essays from another time of looming fascism.
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Purists booed ‘Electric’ Bob Dylan, but Mike Gold loved him in People’s World
January 8, 2025“All you have to do is try to be as natural as Bob Dylan, let your hair grow long, sing when you feel like singing, sleep when you have to sleep, love, protest, be a natural...
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‘Popo and Fifina’: A love letter to Haiti from Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps
October 31, 2024
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Albert Maltz’s anti-fascist masterpiece ‘The Cross and the Arrow’ gets timely reboot
July 30, 2024“One of the truly outstanding literary achievements of the war period,” a work that gave Maltz “new stature” as an artist.
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Michael Wilson’s ‘Salt of the Earth’ script, miracle of the blacklist era
July 1, 2024Salt of the Earth was the most daring script of Michael Wilson’s career.
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Albert Maltz’s long-suppressed civil rights novel is rediscovered—and still relevant
January 23, 2024A Long Day in a Short Life, just released in a beautiful new paperback edition by Alma Books, is available for the first time since 1957. You’ve probably never heard of it.
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Review: ‘A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy’
December 21, 2023Thrall’s telling of Abed’s story enumerates and catalogues the poisonous indignities of life under apartheid.
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