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The latest film releases include Elio, The Damned, Meeting with Pol Pot, and Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers. Weighing in are Alonso Duralde and Dave White, film critics and co-hosts of the movie ...
Each summer, tomatoes arrive in a kaleidoscope of shapes and colors. Ripe tomatoes are so good that most ways to prepare them ...
The Village Voice coverage of the "No Kings" march in New York City notes that the fight against Trump's autocracy will be long and hard.
The Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, whose films have long borne witness to the country’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime of the ...
Cult filmmaker John Waters shares his favourite books—from filthy classics to literary oddities, his reading list is as unhinged as his films.
The Village Voice looks at filmmaker Rithy Panh’s latest dissection of Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime, "Meeting with Pol Pot." ...
Rithy Panh’s historical drama follows three French journalists attempting to interview the Khmer Rouge leader at the height of the Cambodian genocide.
Featuring heavy hitters from the world of literature, music and millennial media ...
The director Rithy Panh dramatizes events from 1978, when a group of outsiders was allowed to enter Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.
In his controversial but surprisingly popular 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind, the philosopher Allan Bloom lamented what he saw to be the decline of intellectual inquiry in America, ...
A historian’s account of modern revolutions finds that while some dictators have been opposed by popular movements, others ...
Zohran Mamdani might or might not win the Dems’ mayoral primary, but the first debate showed he’s already won the argument.