Culture and Society

After last night's mid-terms, I am hopeful that nationalist, authoritarian, and yes, racist (or at best race-baiting) POTUS, Donald J. Trump will finally be subjected to genuine checks and balances! 

The FringeNYC Festival shuttered with its last production performances on 28 October: 'The Resistible Rise of JR Brinkley,' Edward Einhorn's take-off on a Bertol Brecht classic served as the festivals' apt exclamation point.

Interview with Doug Hall author of Driving Eureka! Problem Solving with Data Driven Methods & the Innovation Engineering System.

'Regarding the Case of Joan of Arc' works out to be a metaphor for the current radicalization of Republican Christians in the USA, especially their hardcore faction and those advocating the use of violence to restore their alleged supremacy.

'Note Bandi', edited by R Ramakumar collects articles by academics and economists to detail the impact of India's so called demonetisation (note-bandi).

'I was getting lots of scripts in which there was dementia or death. And I thought with some of them, I don’t want to settle into this and really didn’t. I’ve been fortunate. The last two characters I’ve played, one died, the other was terminal. There’s bound to be some of that.'

The tempestuous story of Shakespeare's Sycorax, the witch present only in name in 'The Tempest'

'Mother of the Maid' should not be missed. It must be seen for Glenn Close's electrifying performance and Grace Van Patten's humanly realized Joan of Arc.

Actress/producer/writer Paula Garcés and her husband Antonio Hernandez continue to expand their 'The World of Aluna' with a new graphic novel trilogy that continues the adventures of the South American superhero.

Interview with Venezuelan poet, editor, and short story writer Maria Gabriela Madrid.