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Between two boarded-up storefronts deep in the poor barrios of central Barcelona, I turned to enter a rotted out doorway and saw 60 allies of the biggest people’s revolution of the 20th century. Jaime, a lean, dark-skinned Colombian immigrant, enthusiastically greeted me to the meeting, encouraging me to join in their cause for liberation...
...cover feature of The Atlantic this month heralds Pentecostalism as “The Next Christianity.” In the article, Penn State historian Philip Jenkins argues that Pentecostalism will be remembered as the most important social movement of the 20th century. Moreover, Jenkins insists, the social and political implications of this movement will shape the coming century in unpredictable ways. Jenkins writes that the 21st century “will be regarded by future historians as a century in which religion replaced ideology as the prime animating and destructive force in human affairs...
Forsyte should delight the Masterpiece faithful, but that shouldn't be PBS's only ambition. Ironically, PBS is hailing this as the production that brings it into the 21st century. More like the early 20th. As the Victorians taught us, daring is relative, and Forsyte is PBS's attempt to show a little ankle. But the network can only blame itself if it is not around to remake Forsyte again in 2035. --By James Poniewozik
...women in her family were affected by China's changing political climate?held a crisp, clear vision, Xue's far broader approach works against it. There's no denying The Good Women of China is an important book, or even that it is essential reading for anyone interested in 20th century Chinese society. At the same time, due to a disjointed structure and heavily depressing narrative, it is also an easy book to put down...
...often using his wife, Quappi, as a model. In his later years he embarked on a series of complex, allegorical triptyches. He had completed the last of these, The Argonauts, in his New York studio the day before he died in 1950. As a German very much of the 20th century, Beckmann had a dark vision, shorn of false sentiment and scornful of aesthetic pleasantries. The Pompidou exhibit, which will move on next year to London's Tate Modern and New York's Museum of Modern Art, does a fine job of aligning Beckmann's shifting stylistic approaches with...