Still Learning from Ms. Lauryn
Hill reaches into the depths of her soul to express emotions so richly human that her grief, and pain, and joy, are ours.
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On Historical Memory in Colombia: A Conversation with Martin Nova
In any case, I don’t see myself as a collector of interviews—what I really want to do is to tell stories. And so what I found is that the tool of the interview is very useful. When you begin a real dialogue with someone, you find that everyone has something to tell, a story to share, but we need to listen.
Interested in Understanding Iran? Watch AppleTV’s “Tehran”
To understand the existential issues facing Iran, you could do worse than to catch the new AppleTV show “Tehran.”
“War Music”: Adaptation and Other Responses to Homer
With the fervor of its political and theological themes, the irrepressible energy of War Music helps the modern reader understand Homer’s epic not as a corpse to be autopsied under the cold lights of the seminar room, but a national mythos suitable for the church, the (movie) theater, the bar, and the Rose Garden, all at once.
Unanswered Questions: In Claudia Rankine’s “Just Us”, a Call for Conversation
Our laughter gave voice to the things that words could not, another kind of “two-step,” perhaps, acknowledging the wrongs that cannot be righted without succumbing to them.
Bafflingly Weird? “Apple” and PC Music’s Postmodern Vision for Pop
Pushing sonic boundaries and upending conventional pop tropes, A.G. Cook shows why PC Music has quickly become one of music’s most polarizing sounds.
The Tragic State of Modern Film
The famous last words of Uncle Ben to Peter Parker are: “With great power comes great responsibility”; our cinematic culture says it believes this axiom, but then refuses to show the audience the price of responsibility, the price of power.
Centering the Voices of Refugees
According to writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, popular narratives fail to capture these salient aspects of refugees’ lives. Instead, refugees stories’ are “invisible” until they are “hypervisible…forgotten by those who are not refugees until they turn into a menace.”