Heather Ann Thompson’s powerful book on the Attica prison uprising of 1971 forces us to think about how methods of incarceration are contrary to our core values.
Cinematic in style, leisurely in pace, and preposterously farfetched in narrative premise, “The Young Pope” is by its creator’s description also about solitude.
John Kerry’s argument is commonsensical: Given the threats Israel faces, does it really want to intensify conflict in the West Bank? How does that help the region?
To Americans accustomed to cashless transactions, it’s difficult to convey the shock the Indian economy has suffered since Modi’s demonetization policy took effect.
One of the most important contributions Pope Francis is making to the church concerns his efforts to exercise the kind of pastoral magisterium Pope John hoped for.
“La La Land” pays tribute to, and revives, the glittery, glamoury musicals of the 1940s; “Silence” is a kind of breakthrough for Martin Scorsese: a new quiet.
The director talks about growing up on the Lower East Side, his early dream of making a film about Jesus in New York City, and what led him to Endo’s “Silence.”
