A Political and Literary Forum
The Netflix series Dead to Me suggests that we might get closer to justice by forgiving each other and ourselves for the sometimes literally fatal flaw of being human.
Judith Levine
The award-winning documentary ‘Honeyland’ sets out to offer a timeless environmental parable, but in the process it also explores misconceptions about the region’s culture and history.
Daniel Petrick
Ron Howard’s Netflix adaptation of ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ continues a long tradition of seeing hillbillies as a symbol of pristine American whiteness. It’s the same nostalgia Trump has mobilized on the far right.
Ellen Wayland-Smith
Current contempt for age gap relationships serves to strip both men and women of their agency.
Jessa Crispin
In films such as Contagion, virology is often confused with the invisible workings of capital.
Mark Bould
Jordan Peele's ‘Us’ depicts the terrors faced by black mothers in a way that owes as much to Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ as it does to classic Hollywood horror.
Tao Leigh Goffe
A timely new documentary celebrates Morrison’s novels, but downplays the enduring power of her work as an editor and essayist.
Joy James
‘Amazing Grace,’ the long-lost film of Franklin’s gospel album, offers a lesson in the deep connections between gospel and soul music.
Ed Pavlić
Lars von Trier. Stanley Kubrick. Michael Haneke.
Rosie Gillies, Boston Review
Trump’s Space Force is a bad reboot of the old imperial fantasy of control from above.
Boots Riley's new film roasts racial capitalism and issues an unapologetic call for revolution.
Robin D. G. Kelley
Morris on his new film and what he thinks of the man who likened himself to Darth Vader and Satan.
Errol Morris, Deborah Chasman
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