PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Culture Yuval Noah Harari Insists The Russian Edition Of His Book Doesn’t Change The Facts
The exact content, if not the nature of the lessons, in Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari’s “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” may be lost in translation. Harari has faced a backlash in recent days after news broke that the Russian edition of his latest book elided criticisms of Vladimir Putin and substantially changed a…
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Culture Michael Flug, Caretaker And Maker Of Civil Rights History, Dies At 74
Michael Flug, a civil rights, labor organizer and the longtime Chicago library archivist for the Midwest’s largest collection of African American historical documents, died July 11. He was 74. Flug’s life was one committed to service. As a student at Columbia University, Flug was active in CORE – the Congress of Racial Equality, a leading…
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Culture Q&A: Steven Greenhouse on labor’s past, present and future
'We talk about American exceptionalism, and one thing that’s exceptional is corporate power in America is much stronger'
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Culture Tarantino’s “Hollywood” Has A Polanski Problem
This post contains major plot spoilers for “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.” In “The White Album,” Joan Didion famously described the atmosphere of California in the aftermath of the Tate murders. “I remember all of the day’s misinformation very clearly,” Didion wrote, “and I also remember this, and wish I did not: I remember…
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Culture Watch Out, Waiters, David Brooks Is Coming For You
When you have a soapbox like The New York Times opinion page, you can be forgiven for thinking the world may want to hear your every thought. When it’s David Brooks, though, we’re all ears! Watch out, folks, this take is hot! Waiters are 87% friendlier as they hand me the bill and I’m about…
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Culture Q&A: Photographers Jay Maisel And Stephen Wilkes On Their New Documentary And The Shots They Missed
When photographer Jay Maisel made the tough, but financially inevitable, decision to sell The Bank, his 35,000 square foot studio and home on Manhattan’s Bowery, Stephen Wilkes knew he had to commit its final days to film. The result is “Jay Myself,” a brisk documentary tour of Maisel’s past captured through the packing up of…
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Culture Embattled Whitney Museum Vice Chair Resigns From Board Over Tear Gas, Gaza Outrage
In response to mounting pressure from artists and protests groups, Warren B. Kanders, the chief executive of police and military equipment company the Safariland Group, resigned from the board of the Whitney Museum on July 24. He had previously been a vice chair of that board, on which he sat for 13 years. “The targeted…
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Culture Deborah Levy, Salman Rushdie And Margaret Atwood Make 2019 Booker Longlist
Murder, sex, dystopia and madness earned spots on the diverse longlist for the 2019 Booker Prize. The annual award, which honors the year’s best English-language novel published in the United Kingdom or Ireland, announced the 13 authors in the running on July 24. British author and playwright Deborah Levy is nominated for her book “The…
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