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Film Review: “White Noise: Inside the Racist Right” — Planting the Seeds

October 23, 2020
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White Noise is neither a polemic nor an exercise in agitprop: it is a journey into the dark center of a reprehensible movement that is growing more vocal every day.

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Film Review: “Cassandro” — The Exótico as Champion

September 26, 2023
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Watching Cassandro become the “Liberace of Luchadors” is enthralling in itself, but we are also given the drama of seeing the protagonist wrestle with his own personal demons.

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Author Interview: Historian Steven Hahn on “Illiberal America”

March 28, 2024
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“The hardest part of the book for me to write was the conclusion. It’s a very dark book. I didn’t want to write a dark conclusion, but I also didn’t want to be Pollyannaish about it.”

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Dance Commentary: Misty Copeland, Ballet, and Race

June 23, 2015
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Tomorrow, Misty Copeland will be American Ballet Theatre’s first African-American ballerina to perform the lead role in Swan Lake in New York City.

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Visual Arts Feature: Artists Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis in Prisons

May 3, 2020
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Much of what artists and educators who enter prisons typically aim to do is help foster human connections with those on the inside.

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Theater Review: Are the Iraqis “Waiting for Gilgamesh”?

July 9, 2014
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Playwright Amir Al-Azraki is in the camp that believes that the Iraqis themselves bear much of the responsibility for the chaos in their country.

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Book Review: “Smedley’s Secret Guide to Literature” — Teenage Lit-Land

August 8, 2016
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This savvy, witty, and casually erudite novella proves that when it comes portraying adolescence in fiction the less sentimentality the better.

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Naked Truths at the 808

March 21, 2006
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By Ken George View Gallery BOSTON, Mass.—John Ashcroft once had statuary at the Justice Department clad in thousands of dollars worth of drapery. An unruly aluminum breast had apparently unnerved the then attorney general, an assiduously religious man. Chalk it up to residual Puritanism, the ascendancy of the religious right, political correctness run amok or…

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Arts Commentary: Internet Archive Under Attack — Cultural History Under Threat

October 17, 2024
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The Internet Archive’s struggles highlight the challenges faced by nonprofit organizations operating in a digital world dominated by commercial and geopolitical interests.

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Poetry Review: Shangyang Fang’s “Study of Sorrow: Translations”

October 8, 2025
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We owe Shangyang Fang a debt for bringing the delicacy, obliqueness, and sheer tremulous beauty of these Chinese poems to English-speaking readers.

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