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The Hidden Faces of Apartheid

Bongani Kona

August 04, 2020

Uncovering the secret crimes of the apartheid security police.

Mirror on Mirror

Stephanie Burt

July 27, 2020

Two parallel women, millennia apart, whose carefully acquired beauty made them patriarchy’s ideal targets.

Game Face

James Wham

July 21, 2020

A new collection of Olympic films tries to skip the politics.

Storm in a Teacup

Francis Wade

July 16, 2020

On tea, colonial trade, and the origins of capitalism in India and China.

What Women Want

Kristen Martin

July 14, 2020

Two new novels probe the dangers of desiring more than your lot.

Fool’s Gold

Gene Seymour

July 08, 2020

In Spike Lee's latest, black vets return to Vietnam.

No Safe Haven

Leo Schwartz

June 29, 2020

Two books consider how U.S. policy ravages the Northern Triangle.

State of the Art

Josh Gabert-Doyon

June 23, 2020

Canada’s lucrative animation industry is hollowing out an art form

A Writer for the Masses

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce 

June 09, 2020

The illuminating hackwork of Cyprian Ekwensi.

Brief Encounters

John Semley

June 01, 2020

Rethinking inscrutability in two recent festival hits.

Meditations in an Emergency

Madeleine Crum

May 19, 2020

Worker writers take stock of a world reshaped by coronavirus.

Gatsbys of Our Time

Matt Hanson

May 18, 2020

On Fitzgerald’s novel and eternal American myths.