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Picassos personal mythologies: Three paintings at the Currier Museum

Bangladesh, Oct. 9 -- Manchesters Currier Museum is currently presenting Personal Mythologies: Picasso in the 1940s and 50s-a small exhibition consisting of three paintings, two of which are on loan t... Read More


The Third Man and the Ruins of Modernity

Bangladesh, Oct. 1 -- Carol Reeds The Third Man, recently screened at the Park Theatre in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, is routinely described as one of the greatest films noirs ever made. It is certainly t... Read More


The ugliness of the West: Tinker tailor soldier spy and the ideological closure of capitalism

Bangladesh, Aug. 9 -- John le Carrés Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy endures not simply as the anti-James Bond film but as something rarer: a diagnosis of Western civilization at the moment it began lo... Read More


Recognition, right, and the stateless: A Fichtean critique of the plight of the Rohingya

Bangladesh, July 20 -- In a world that proclaims human rights as universal, what does it mean that entire peoples are rendered legally nonexistent-human beings for whom, as Hannah Arendt put it, &#822... Read More


Truth before power: Shakespeare on Judgment

Bangladesh, July 16 -- Few literary works have generated as many competing interpretations as Shakespeares Hamlet. Psychoanalytic critics have found an Oedipal drama. Existentialists have found a medi... Read More