Monthly Preview: June

Award-winning journalism, Pittsburgh points and new classic movie reviews

Read in June about three films in which protagonists struggle to break free from tradition, oppression and prejudice: Jean Negulesco’s Daddy Long Legs (1955), Brubaker (1980) and Annie Oakley (1935). Also, look for news of a best journalism award.

Autonomia initiated the year with a logo and a travelogue about America’s oldest holocaust museum—the first in the U.S.A. to be founded by concentration camp survivors—with a diorama of the only Nazi death camp where a mass revolt succeeded. The resistance fighters organized, schemed and were armed.

Since then, the revolving movie star series, including Sunday with Barbara Stanwyck, Monday with Joel McCrea, Tuesday with Cary Grant, Wednesday with Greta Garbo, Thursday with Robert Redford and Friday with Fred Astaire, returned.

Other 2022 articles include an obituary of a murdered young LA woman as well as travelogues, a review of an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s dystopian-themed The Road, a 5,000-word report on Ukraine—the newsletter’s first…