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A Novelist Who Finds Inspiration in Germany’s Tortured History
New York Times· 5 hours agoJenny Erpenbeck became a writer when her childhood and her country, the German Democratic Republic, disappeared, swallowed by the materialist West. Steven Erlanger first traveled to East Germany ...
Eddie Redmayne Excels as the Emcee in a Boozy Broadway ‘Cabaret’
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 5 days agoMarc BrennerThe producers of the new Broadway production of John Kander and Fred Ebb’s sharp, dark...
The Language of Political Control | by Robert Skidelsky - Project Syndicate
Project Syndicate· 7 days agoWriting in 1946, Orwell noted that the harrowing events of his time – the mass atrocities of Nazism,...
Elon Musk Is Now Meddling in Brazil’s Democracy, Too
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 2 days agoX’s chief troll is inciting a “censorship” moral panic in Brazil, undermining the democratically elected government’s efforts to squash far-right...
Why this Passover has deeper meaning for 3 metro Phoenix Jewish families touched by Holocaust
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 4 days agoEscaping persecution Lessons about oppression against Jews throughout history — the pharaoh, the...
Extreme internet misogynists love Donald Trump
Media Matters· 2 days agoPersonalities from the so-called “manosphere,” including Andrew Tate, Sneako, Myron Gaines, Jon Zherka, and Hannah Pearl Davis, have expressed their...
Columbine survivors can’t believe that the shootings haven’t stopped 25 years later
The Independent via Yahoo News· 7 days agoSince 1999, the name of a Colorado high school has been tragically enshrined in the public...
4 Germans Caught Marking Hitler's Birthday
Time Magazine· 4 days agoFour Germans were caught laying white roses in memory of Adolf Hitler at the house where the Nazi dictator was born in western Austria on the anniversary...
Ato Blankson-Wood rebuilds a famous 'Cabaret' role from scratch
NBC NEWS· 3 days agoOne of the main characters in the renowned musical “Cabaret,” bisexual American writer Clifford...
Opinion | What Began as a War on Theater Won’t End There
New York Times· 6 days agoProductions of plays in America’s high schools have been increasingly under attack. In 2023, Anton...