I’ve never watched a noir thriller on Netflix that hasn’t disappointed me in some way or another. Netflix mass produces noir thrillers, and crime dramas like Vera with Brenda Blethyn the way Warner Brothers once…
Posts published by “Jonah Raskin”
Isn’t this what many of us have been waiting for? It is indeed. Coordinated protests against Trump, ICE, and the war that has targeted immigrants who have kept the economy going and kept themselves alive…
Reflections on Thorne Dreyer’s Notes from the Underground (New Journalism Project, $27). Have you noticed? Sixties folk—organizers, activists, pacifists, feminists and liberationists of all stripes—can’t seem to get enough of the era when they made…
In a recent review of two novels by Native American author Tommy Orange, Francine Prose comments on what she calls “the land acknowledgment” phrase that is recited at many public meetings from coast-to-coast. In San…
“The Vietnamese national character is rapidly changing. Our value system is falling apart. Gangsters are making incredible fortunes on the black market.” – Professor Hoang Ngoc Hien, Hanoi intellectual, 1995 “We’re getting wonderful cooperation from…
“The idea that we’re the greatest people in the world because we have the most money in the world is ridiculous. Wait until this wave of prosperity is over! Wait ten or fifteen years! Wait…
They did not come to the Civic Center in San Francisco on April 5, 2025 to speak truth to power. They know that power doesn’t listen to people, not the powerful but vulnerable demigods in…