L ike a streak of lightning or an unraveling Star of David, the Jewish Museum Berlin zigzags through the city’s Kreuzberg section, just steps away from graffiti-covered storefronts and boxy, high-rise public housing. Clad in zinc, its facade broken with irregular slashes of glass, it gleams like a spaceship plopped down in an alien landscape. […]
Julia Klein
Julia M. Klein is a cultural reporter and critic based in Philadelphia. She is writing a book on the postmodern museum.
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Between Law and Justice
In a modest hotel room, Bobby Esposito and Cynthia Bennington, two young assistant district attorneys, have just made love for the first time. For the high-toned Bennington, the occasion is a breakthrough. “I’ve never had an orgasm before,” she tells Esposito. He’s pleased, but his mind is elsewhere. He’s worried about inequities in the system. […]
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Lost in Translation
P ast summer the George family traveled to the nation’s capital from their northern California reservation with a clear agenda: to raise awareness of the Hupas’ battle to protect their land and culture from environmental threats. “America has been educated from a colonial, oppressive perspective, and then Disney has come along and colored who we […]
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Domestic Spy
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 221 pages, $23.00. Women’s work in America can be an ugly business–hard, repetitive labor,usually for low wages and male bosses. There is the pink-collar ghetto of retailand office jobs, and then there is worse: employment in sweatshops and fast-foodrestaurants and domestic […]