Will the Real Devil Please Stand Up? Oliver Stone’s Political Road Trip ‘South of the Border’
South of the Border Directed by Oliver Stone Good Apple Productions, 2009 Distributed by Cinema Libre Studio Opens Friday,…
South of the Border Directed by Oliver Stone Good Apple Productions, 2009 Distributed by Cinema Libre Studio Opens Friday,…
Take Back the Summer: Summer Lit Picks
Political Awakenings By Harry Kreisler The New Press, 2010 Hopes and Prospects By Noam Chomsky Haymarket Books,…
Common Narrative: Molly Reed Discusses her Audio Archiving Project
I’ve always romanticized the notion of history represented by dusty stacks and rare archives, and last summer I decided…
Racial Reflections: Uptown Museum Nights. A Review of “After 1968” and “VidéoStudio.”
The stereo speakers, arranged together in an altar-like presentation, emit murmurs of some garbled, holy tongue. Each has a…
Ghost of Gaza Haunts Israel: A Review of Norman Finkelstein’s new book “This Time We Went Too Far”
‘This Time We Went Too Far’: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion By Dr. Norman Finkelstein OR Books,…
Secret Sounds of Iran: A Review of ‘No One Knows About Persian Cats’
No One Knows About Persian Cats Directed by Bahman Ghobadi A Production of Mij Film Co., 2009 In Farsi…
Vincere Directed by Marco Bellocchio A Production of Celluloid Dreams, et al., 2009 In Italian “Mussolini Killed in Northern…
The Great White Way Sees Red: A Review of Finian’s Rainbow and Zero Hour
Finian’s Rainbow Book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy Music by Burton Lane, Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg Zero Hour…
Theory into Action: A Review of David Graeber’s Direct Action
Direct Action: An Ethnography By David Graeber AK Press, 2009 Social theory grows out of the sediment left behind…
The Sweetest Dream: Love, Lies & Assassination By Lillian Pollak Self-published, 2008 Few novels address the experience of Trotskyism…