Eunice Wong on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/eunice_wong Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2011 2011-06-24T21:05:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo ‘Shade It Black’: The Bodybaggers of Iraq http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/shade_it_black_the_bodybaggers_of_iraq_20110624/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/shade_it_black_the_bodybaggers_of_iraq_20110624/ chris hedges, eunice wong, government, iraq, jess goodell, marines, military, mortuary affairs unit, shade it black, truthdig radio, war, Book Feature BLANK

Jess Goodell volunteered when she was a Marine to work in the corps’ mortuary affairs unit in Iraq. Her job was to collect the bodies and body parts of fallen fellow Marines. She wrote a book about the experience called “Shade It Black: Death and After in Iraq.” Here are excerpts from Goodell’s book and Chris Hedges’ interview with the author, read by classically trained actor and Truthdig contributor Eunice Wong.

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Frederick Wiseman’s new documentary, “La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet,” is a celebration of the ephemeral nature of performance and the fleeting glory of the human body.

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]]> 2010-06-15T18:24:00+00:00 Eunice Wong on ‘Footnotes in Gaza’ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/eunice_wong_on_footnotes_in_gaza_20100108/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/eunice_wong_on_footnotes_in_gaza_20100108/ book, footnotes in gaza, gaza, graphic novel, israel, joe sacco, palestine, review, Book Review footnotes in gaza

Joe Sacco’s graphic treatment of the 1956 massacres of Palestinians by invading Israeli soldiers melds tough-minded journalism with philosophical reflection into a gut-wrenching banquet of a comic book.

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]]> 2010-01-08T07:00:00+00:00 ‘Life and Fate’ at the Lincoln Center Festival http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090819_theatre_review_life_and_fate_at_the_lincoln_center/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090819_theatre_review_life_and_fate_at_the_lincoln_center/ eunice wong, lev dodin, life and fate, lincoln center festival, maly drama, st. petersburg, theatre review, wwii, Theater Review Life and Fate

“Life and Fate” by Vasily Grossman is one of the greatest works of 20th century literature. A new theatrical adaptation is innovative, but ultimately loses the epic’s profound meditations on good and evil.

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Hello ladies. Would you consider reusable menstrual items? Please stay with me. 

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Todd Haynes’ film “I’m Not There,” “inspired by the music and many lives of Bob Dylan,” shows that art reveals truth when it has the imagination to move away from the imitation of reality.

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The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, located on the Mall in Washington, D.C., is a monument to historical amnesia.  The blond limestone building, surrounded by indigenous crops of corn, tobacco and squash, invites visitors on a guilt-free, theme park tour of Native American history, where acknowledgment of the American genocide is in extremely bad taste.

]]> 2007-10-05T19:05:00+00:00 Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘Seagull’ Soars http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20070917_theater_review_rsc_the_seagull/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20070917_theater_review_rsc_the_seagull/ actor, chekhov, drama, los angeles, new york, nunn, royal shakespeare company, seagull, stage, theater, Theater Review The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” seems, at first, to be merely a skillful and familiar rendition of a masterpiece. But like many great works of art, the power of this production is cumulative.

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