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Film Reviews: At the Berlin International Film Festival — Two Movies about Workers Under Assault

February 19, 2022
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Two stylistically different films in which workers are exploited and empowered.

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Jazz Appreciation: Lee Morgan — On the 50th Anniversary of His Death

February 19, 2022
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Prodigy, post-Parker junkie, dead by homicide at a young age (1938-1972). Whatever. The myth shouldn’t crowd out the player. Musically, trumpeter Lee Morgan was a muthahfucka..

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Author Interview: Linda Hirshman on the Battle Against Human Bondage

February 19, 2022
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“I always wanted to write about abolition, because abolition is the most successful social movement in American history.”

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Book Review: “Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail” — Prison Is Bad. Jail’s Worse.

February 18, 2022
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Indefinite argues that legitimate change in the way this country deals with people accused of breaking the law would have to begin with the recognition of their humanity.

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Jazz Album Review: Avishai Cohen’s “Naked Truth” — Meditating on the Last Things

February 18, 2022
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To this listener, the quartet generates a drama of gradual enlightenment, as if extroversion signified some sort of illumination.

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Visual Arts Review: “America’s Past-time” — Are We Having Fun Yet?

February 18, 2022
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The strength of Robert Freeman’s Black figures, even as they endure humiliation or violence, remains a prominent element in his vision.

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Book Review: “Pyre” — A Powerful Romeo & Juliet Fable That Centers on Caste

February 17, 2022
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The Tamil version of Pyre, under the title, Pukkuli, was dedicated to a young man murdered in his community for making an inter-caste marriage.

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Jazz Album Review: Ran Blake’s “Looking Glass” — Music from an Idiosyncratic Guru

February 17, 2022
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This album offers a Baedeker of pianist Ran Blake’s cinematic effects, the mis-en-scene for a narrative musical imagination unlike any other.

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Book Review: “Cuba: An American History” — Inextricably Linked, for Better and Worse

February 16, 2022
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As we hopefully continue to reevaluate our relationship with Cuba, this masterful history should prove an invaluable asset for us all.

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Book Review: “Jena 1800” — A Ferocious Hunger for Freedom

February 15, 2022
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Peter Neumann has written a compelling historical study that focuses on the tumultuous concatenation of a number of imaginative and dynamic thinkers.

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