Jeremy Ray Jewell
In Colombia and Encanto, willful ignorance is the price paid for reassurance.
As we hopefully continue to reevaluate our relationship with Cuba, this masterful history should prove an invaluable asset for us all.
In Home Reading Service the literary and the illiterate rub shoulders, and we are given a vision of people tentatively emerging from behind walls.
What makes these two albums stand apart? They are content to showcase the elemental power of Tennessee Ernie Ford’s voice.
Mexico City settles on Columbus’ replacement, but finds that removal and substitution is agonizing in society which hasn’t changed all that much.
Jaun Cirerol has been accused of idealizing desperation. He disagrees. “I am well-anchored,” he responds.
‘Lived experience’ doesn’t automatically confer moral or political insight, argues social critic Ben Burgis, but if we can make others laugh at that assumption we might be getting somewhere.
This is a noble effort to reconcile with the Southern past — but are suggested changes in nomenclature — rather than statements of moral and political clarity — good enough?
“Fate loves irony” opines the billionaire. Will we be in on the joke, or left out in the cold?
Book Review: “We Uyghurs Have No Say” — When Truth Telling Becomes Subversive
What do the words of an imprisoned Uyghur dissident tell us about the desperate plight of China’s ethnic minorities today?
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