Review
In a sweeping account of the nation’s anniversary milestones, Eddie Glaude Jr. shows how whitewashing and racial exclusion have shaped America’s self-image from 1826 to 2026.
Rebecca Novack’s debut blends murder mystery and social satire in a sly, shape-shifting narrative driven by a sex worker who may be telling us exactly what we want to hear.
Allison Janney and Andrew Rannells star in a bittersweet new drama about grief, love, and second chances.
“The Maids” uses video and fantasy with purpose, while “Kenrex” turns a grim murder story into empty showmanship.
In Boston, the Boss fused crowd-pleasing anthems with a forceful anti-Trump jeremiad—raising questions even as he roused the faithful
Radu Jude’s latest begins in Ken Loach–like realism before veering into a savage, cine-literate black comedy about complicity and conscience.
A powerful new book exposes how the fear of Black liberation shaped the American legal order—and how the legacy of the slave patrol endures today.
Boots Riley fuses anti-capitalist critique with surrealist comedy, imagining revolt as both necessity and joy.
Anne-Sophie Mutter’s latest album sidesteps easy binaries, pairing Widmann’s mercurial Beethoven study with works by Chin, Darvishi, and Adès in performances of striking authority.

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