1+ hour, 20+ min ago  (146+ words) My inner nerd was hoping for something better from this franchise, whose source material has a rich, if silly and unkempt, fantasy-world history, and, specifically, this film, a cast replete with capable actors. Alas, no dice, and I am happy…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (183+ words) When Alice and Meg discover Falstaff's scheme to deceive, seduce, and fleece them, they resolve to turn the tables on the erstwhile wannabe lover boy with ploys, plots, and pranks a-plenty of their own. It is a case of feminine…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (109+ words) Gathering Storm: A Story of the Black Belt University of North Carolina Press, 2025 Joel Wendland-Liu is the author of Mythologies: A Political Economy of U. S. Literature in the Long Nineteenth-Century, The Collectivity of Life: Spaces of Social Mobility and the Individualism…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (291+ words) A "fun" fact about the 1954 film Animal Farm, based on the novel by George Orwell, is that it was funded by the CIA (the same was true of the later screen adaptation of his 1984). The spy agency's idea was to…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (192+ words) One of the truly remarkable things about The Wretched of the Earth is that, in addition to psychoanalyzing the colonized, Fanon also put the psyche of the colonizer under the magnifying glass. In the section entitled "Colonial War and Mental…...

1+ mon, 2+ hour ago  (444+ words) In a television landscape where working-class-centered series are few and far between, here are two that present the trials and tribulations of that class as well as their antagonism to the class above, as exemplified in the U. S. hegemon." What does…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (148+ words) This cartoon, drawn by People's World artist Norman Goldberg, appeared in a 1990 edition of the paper. With bosses again dreaming of a worker-less future thanks to AI, the editors thought it was a good time to bring it back. U. S. faces…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (94+ words) For further reading:" Trump's Postmaster General says USPS may shut down in a year. .. Postmaster General says USPS may shut down in a year Greg Kearney has worked as an editorial cartoonist for over 40 years. He calls himself "a traditional…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (718+ words) Africville Faith Nolan 1986 Forty years ago, Faith Nolan released her debut album, Africville. Recently, she made her catalog available through online streaming services, and that's a good thing because it makes this album available to a wider and newer audience....

2+ mon, 53+ min ago  (183+ words) It appeared to me that modern dress characters, perhaps archaeologists, were studying the pharaoh's mummy on the bottom tier of the boards. In any case, Amenhotep III's son, who goes on to take the name Akhnaten (Texas countertenor John Holiday,…...