
“A Year Without Sundays:” remaking Cuban society through literacy campaign
A modern day activist for social change often dreams of that day when all the hard work of struggle comes to fruition . . .

"The Green Inferno" is new low in racist film making
Filmmaker Eli Roth, who specializes in the horror genre, has no problem time traveling in the wrong direction.

New book celebrates the centennial of jazz great Billy Strayhorn
"Strayhorn: An Illustrated Life" is a welcome addition for anyone interested in jazz, civil rights, or photography.

Rampling and Courtenay: The past preserved haunts the present in “45 Years”
Andrew Haigh's film is a profoundly stirring one about a longtime married couple poignantly portrayed by two cinema greats.

New book offers no optimism for a free Puerto Rico
Nelson A. Denis looks not at earlier colonial history, but rather measures taken to subdue Nationalists before and after their 1950 uprising.

“Moby-Dick”: Melville’s masterpiece gets an operatic treatment
Although it has some fishy alterations, this is a mind-blowing production.

