Gunty’s novel stands out as a smart, funny and humane alternative that recognizes to a degree the importance of class and environment on the formation of character.
The toxic debate revolving accusations of “anti-Semitism” levelled at the Indonesian curatorial team Ruangrupa continues unabated.
More than 170 actors, lawyers, writers and producers have signed a powerful open letter as Artists for Palestine defending her against “modern-day McCarthyism” and highlighting the attack on her legal rights.
Seventy-four extraordinary works are on display during an exclusive exhibition in Detroit.
As with previous seasons of Curb, the eleventh contained some comic and satirical elements. However, the events of the past year, especially the war in Ukraine, need to be taken into account when evaluating the series and the social milieu.
The series has undoubtedly touched a nerve which says more about the present state of filmmaking and society than anything Tolkien is responsible for.
A number of serious series and programs received Emmy awards this year, as television continues to prove more socially critical and interesting than filmmaking.
Unlike a good many films and television programs at present that aim at capturing social reality, Mo proceeds in a vivid, multifaceted, compassionate manner, devoid of self-pity or self-conscious gloom.
No element of ambiguity or complexity is allowed to intrude. Whatever conceptions and prejudices the viewer enters with, he or she leaves with.
The film follows a wounded Afghanistan war veteran who returns home to her native New Orleans in order to recuperate.
A teenage boy undergoes disturbing, eye-opening experiences and receives a cruel education in the ways of the free enterprise system.
In terms of its ominous atmosphere, The Humans has many elements or motifs consciously borrowed from the horror genre.
Lewis epitomized rock and roll and rebellion in the late 1950s. He left an indelible mark with his hard-driving, boogie-woogie piano playing and forceful singing.
The spiteful campaign against one of the most successful musicians of the past 50 years is because Waters, even at the age of 79, is not prepared to follow the prevailing reactionary winds.
The pandemic is exacerbating the already difficult conditions for musicians, many of whom can ill afford to cancel performances.
Corporate sponsors have fled in droves as the rapper-celebrity has engaged in unprecedented displays of fascistic bigotry in recent weeks.
Gunty’s novel stands out as a smart, funny and humane alternative that recognizes to a degree the importance of class and environment on the formation of character.
De Jong gives a detailed and well-researched account of the intimate involvement of some of Germany's largest business dynasties with the National Socialists (Nazis) and shows how, after the war, they were able to continue amassing wealth, retain decisive influence in business and financial spheres, and even resume the financing of fascist tendencies.
The socialist traditions of 1917 found a deeply progressive expression in the work of Vasily Grossman.
It is tempting to find aspects of an author’s life in the pages of his or her fiction. In the case of Owens and Where the Crawdads Sing, however, many are treating the novel, which includes a murder mystery, as evidence in an imaginary trial.
The WSWS recently spoke to filmmaker Nadav Lapid, director of Ahed’s Knee, on a video call.
Wizemann’s You Mean Everything to Me follows a young woman, Cassandra (Morgan Saylor), who, faced with homelessness, comes under the spell of a local DJ, Nathan (Ben Rosenfield).
The notorious Counter Terrorism and Investigation Department arrested Jazeem in May 2020, claiming that his poetry promoted extremism and falsely accused him of teaching extremism to his students.
Last week director, producer, painter and sculptor Andrew Levitas spoke with the World Socialist Web Site about his dramatic feature Minamata, featuring Johnny Depp as world-famous photographer W. Eugene Smith.
