Arts and Culture | Truthdig http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/ Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2013 2013-05-16T23:03:18+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo Act of Congress http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/ArtsAndCulture/~3/4z_NSjUB3Hg/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/act_of_congress_20130516/ act of congress, book review, books, Book Review By Jesse Eisinger

A new book examines the House and Senate through the evolution of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law, and “Congress comes across as the nation’s grandfather: antiquated, inconsistent, as slow-moving as it is dull-witted.”

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]]> 2013-05-16T23:03:18+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/act_of_congress_20130516/ Daily Rituals http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/ArtsAndCulture/~3/JlWYEhVTizA/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/daily_rituals_20130509/ book review, books, creativity, daily rituals, Book Review By Gabriel Thompson

“Daily Rituals: How Artists Work,” which describes the routines of more than 150 creative people, including playwrights, composers, painters and writers, is a compact, quirky and frequently delightful book.

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]]> 2013-05-10T04:50:54+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/daily_rituals_20130509/ What Fate Awaits Orwell’s Birthplace? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/ArtsAndCulture/~3/79Ud1172V7Y/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/what_fate_awaits_orwells_birthplace_20130502/ 1984, animal farm, eric arthur blair, george orwell, indian home rule, mahatma gandhi, motihari, vishwas gaitonde,

Would you bulldoze the house where the beloved author of “Animal Farm” and “1984” was born to build a park in honor of Mahatma Gandhi? Officials in the state of Bihar, India, are considering it.

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]]> 2013-05-03T05:32:13+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/what_fate_awaits_orwells_birthplace_20130502/ The Girls of Atomic City http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/ArtsAndCulture/~3/4giKEMSx35A/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/the_girls_of_atomic_city_20130502/ atomic bomb, book, book review, denise kiernan, government, manhattan project, scott martelle, the girls of atomic city, war, Book Review By Scott Martelle

In 1942, the U.S. government created an instant, secret city in rural Tennessee to process uranium for the world’s first atomic bomb. And Rosie, it turns out, did much more than drive rivets.

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]]> 2013-05-03T01:54:23+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/the_girls_of_atomic_city_20130502/ WTF? Beyonce and Anna Wintour Chair Punk Couture Exhibit http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/ArtsAndCulture/~3/yj7BSvRi6HA/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/wtf_beyonce_and_anna_wintour_chair_punk_couture_exhibit_20130501/ fashion, media, music, punk, punk rock, the met, In the News, Music

It’s hard not to imagine a genuine punk rocker gagging a little bit on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition “PUNK: Chaos to Couture.”

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]]> 2013-05-01T06:51:11+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/wtf_beyonce_and_anna_wintour_chair_punk_couture_exhibit_20130501/ A Farmer’s Life, in Focus and on Film http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/ArtsAndCulture/~3/hmOrEffPV6M/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/a_farmers_life_in_focus_on_film_20130429/ at any price, dennis quaid, farming, farms, food, michael pollan, monsanto, ramin bahrani, the omnivore's dilemma, zac effron, Interview

Director Ramin Bahrani’s latest film “At Any Price” tells the story of a man who runs a farming empire and sells genetically modified seeds. We talked recently with Bahrani about the pressures of farming in the current Monsanto-dominated environment and how the country has changed since Alexis de Tocqueville wrote “Democracy in America.” 

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]]> 2013-04-29T22:25:38+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/a_farmers_life_in_focus_on_film_20130429/ Ripped From Tomorrow’s Headlines: Brian Wood, Comic Book Futurist http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/ArtsAndCulture/~3/FgoOdqeWvBw/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/ripped_from_tomorrows_headlines_brian_wood_comic_book_futurist_20130429/ art, brian wood, comic books, comics, dmz, environment, fiction, film, government, movies, sheerly avni, the massive, Interview

Brian Wood is a best-selling comic book writer whose body of work expresses a political and social awareness that ranks with the best in speculative fiction.

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We talk with Clive James, translator and cultural critic, about tackling Dante’s masterpiece. “Dante,” writes James, “was the first to put the scientific attitude into art.”

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]]> 2013-04-26T07:00:27+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/the_divine_comedy_20130425/ Color Blind http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/ArtsAndCulture/~3/40inu08qNqI/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/color_blind_20130418/ book reviews, books, color blind, jackie robinson, tom dunkel, Book Review By Steven V. Roberts

Twelve years before Jackie Robinson began dismantling baseball’s racial barriers, an integrated team of five whites and six blacks played in Bismarck, N.D., and went on to win the national semipro championship.

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]]> 2013-04-19T03:06:31+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/color_blind_20130418/ In-Depth Review and Analysis of the 2013 Pulitzer Winner for Fiction http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/ArtsAndCulture/~3/MNSoz8azGqY/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/in-depth_review_and_analysis_of_the_2013_pulitzer-winner_for_fiction_201304/ book, book review, cherilyn parsons, pulitzer prize, the orphan master’s son, In the News

Cherilyn Parsons, in her Truthdig review of “The Orphan Master’s Son,” wrote that the book, which just won the Pulitzer Prize, is “a rich, careening, dystopian tale that stretches the form of a novel to give us a visceral hit of life inside North Korea.”

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