W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry “makes nothing happen.” While generally true, the precept doesn’t hold in the case of playwright Athol Fugard, whose body of work helped transform the history of his nation. Born in Middelburg, South Africa, in 1932 to an … Read more
Earlier this month, President Trump issued an executive order to freeze all U.S. aid to South Africa and to grant refugee status to white Afrikaners who want to leave the country. According to the White House, and to Elon Musk, the South African government is discriminating against white South Africans, specifically by enacting a land-reform … Read more
The Oscars ceremony may look like a lot of glitter and glam on the surface, but beneath the glossy surface lurks a battle of worldwide proportions! Or maybe it’s just the competition for the foreign language film award, which since 2020 has been called the international feature film award. And on Feb. 27, 2005, in … Read more
