Remembering Antiwar Activist Todd Gitlin / 'Maus' Author Art Spiegelman

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We remember activist, scholar and social critic Todd Gitlin, who died Feb. 5 at the age of 79. He was president of SDS, the Students for a Democratic Society and helped organize the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War. He continued his commitment to social change as a teacher and writer. John Powers reviews a reissue of a groundbreaking crime novel about a gay detective.Also, we'll listen back to our 1987 interview with Art Spiegelman, whose Pulitizer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, about the Holocaust, is one of the books recently being banned. Finally, Justin Chang reviews the thriller Kimi directed by Steven Soderbergh.

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