“Ukrainian culture — Ukrainian language, Ukrainian books, literature, poetry, arts — is the testimony of our existence through all these centuries … It is still here, and we try to save it.”
Interview
Jazz Interview: A Conversation with Music Promoter Alex Lemski
“Music here is great, cutting edge. But to get an audience anywhere you need to get covered … Promoting is a struggle, dealing with the lack of media coverage.”
Author Interview: Novelist Gary S. Kadet — Ferociously Prolific
“I’m really dark. Everything I write is dark. Most people don’t know what dark fiction is, but agents ask for it.”
Music Feature: Neighbor Comes into Its Own
The band Neighbor isn’t reinventing the wheel, but it’s not getting steamrolled by it either.
Film Interview: “The New Greatness Case” – Caught on Camera, But Who’s Guilty?
In the annals of Russian repression, The New Greatness Case was a display of government overkill — until the events of this year redefined overkill.
Filmmaker Interview: Arlington’s Eric Stange on his Documentary “Pony Boys”
This is a delightful and moving tale that provides a much-needed bit of relief from the chaotic world we are currently navigating. Back before there was iPhones and social media, two little boys took off on an unlikely adventure that changed their lives.
Author Interview: Jennifer Haigh on Writing About Abortion — With Roe v. Wade Likely to be Overturned
“As a writer, I was drawn to a subject I can’t make sense of any other way. So the questions swirling around abortion are so close to my heart I just had to write about it.”
Author Interview: Kathleen C. Stone on “They Called Us Girls: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men””
“Some women ignored what was expected and forged careers in fields traditionally reserved for men. In other words, they had “men’s” jobs. I wanted to know where that ambition came from.”
Author Interview: Steve Almond Reveals “All the Secrets of the World”
An interview with debut novelist (at last!) Steve Almond.
Theater Interview: John Bell on Bread and Puppet’s Staging of Aeschylus’s “The Persians”
“The play challenges us to think about those we consider our enemies, and to think of them with compassion and understanding.”