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Harvard professor and author Stephen Greenblatt won a Pulitzer Prize this week for his account of how an ancient Roman philosophical epic jump-started the modern world.
Posted on Apr 20, 2012
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By John Donnelly —
Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin suggest in their new book, “Tinderbox,” that colonialists’ aggressive trade practices opened new travel routes in central Africa that helped spread a disease rooted in a dense forest to the world beyond.
Posted on Apr 19, 2012
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Tupac Shakur was killed in 1996, but he rose from the stage at Coachella on Sunday, a hologram that entertained a mesmerized crowd and promised a new era of technologically enhanced grave robbing.
Posted on Apr 16, 2012
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By Paul Von Blum — The impact of her sculpture Target extends to the thousands of anonymous people of color, mostly but not exclusively younger males, who are routinely subjected to racist harassment and attacks by police and others throughout the United States.
Posted on Apr 16, 2012
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The German filmmaker has spent a career chronicling the struggles of odd heroes, real and imagined. Now approaching his 70th year, Werner Herzog confirms he doesn’t fear the inevitable final cut—neither for himself nor the human race.
Posted on Apr 14, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — At its best, “Monsieur Lazhar” is something very rare in film: a study in self-containment.
Posted on Apr 13, 2012
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By Ebony Utley — Mark Edward Taylor’s “Branding Obamessiah: The Rise of an American Idol” lays out the six sacred branding strategies—taken from the world of advertising—used to turn a mere mortal from Chicago into the image of an American savior.
Posted on Apr 12, 2012
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After several rounds of negotiations, not to mention a couple of altercations, the power play between the Motion Picture Association of America and the creative forces behind Lee Hirsch’s recently released documentary, “Bully,” has produced a slightly new version of the film—one that meets the ratings board’s standards for PG-13 fare without compromising the movie’s message.
Posted on Apr 6, 2012
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By Michael S. Roth —
Jonah Lehrer’s “Imagine: How Creativity Works” begins with Bob Dylan writing “Like A Rolling Stone”: “ ‘It’s like a ghost is writing a song,’ he said. ‘It gives you the song and it goes away.’ ” Lehrer adds, “Once the ghost arrived, all Dylan wanted to do was get out of the way.”
Posted on Apr 5, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — Is bullying on the rise in schools around the country? I don’t know. You don’t know. And, most important, Lee Hirsch, director of the documentary “Bully,” doesn’t seem to know either.
Posted on Apr 1, 2012
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When John Carlos raised his fist in a salute at the 1968 Olympic Games, he encouraged untold numbers of people to continue fighting for racial and economic justice. Today, he says, the control corporations exert over professional athletes makes such an act impossible to imagine.
Posted on Mar 31, 2012
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By Lauren B. Davis —
“When my mother was angry with me, which was often,” writes Jeanette Winterson in her new memoir “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?,” “she said, ‘The devil led us to the wrong crib.’ ”
Posted on Mar 29, 2012
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German film director Margarethe von Trotta is at work on a film about Hannah Arendt, the 20th century political philosopher who coined the phrase “banality of evil” while reporting on the trial of Nazi officer and Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann.
Posted on Mar 28, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — It may be that, as Americans, we are the victims of a cultural disconnect. At the height of Terence Rattigan’s fame, the Brits invested a good deal of admiration in his attempts to extend the reign of the carefully constructed prewar “problem” play into the postwar era.
Posted on Mar 26, 2012
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