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This is a book about “survivor’s guilt,” and also about the terrible loneliness that comes of losing so many whom you love.
Read MoreIt is worth your time watching Shakespeare & Company’s two fine actresses come to an understanding that is cathartic and real.
Read More“The O’Briens” is a good sink-your-teeth-into read that explores the capricious nature of destiny with grace and humor and shows great compassion for its characters.
Read MoreBreath & Imagination is a realistic, moving, and very revealing take on what it means to be a black artist in America, both then and now.
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The Lyric Stage production of Anna Christie does right by Eugene O’Neill’s brilliance.
Read MoreSome fiction can, literally, have the smell of too much research. And so, although I admire the ambition and scope of Audrey Schulman’s new novel, “Three Weeks in December,” I also feel that she made things harder for herself than she needed to.
Read MoreIf you are going to write about this very charged subject, the West and Islam, why would you choose as a representative of that great and ancient culture a woman who is stunted emotionally, clearly unreliable, and probably mentally unstable?
Read MoreNina Schuyler’s uneven novel raises some interesting questions in the course of the protagonist’s quest, and there are many fascinating details about Japan and Noh plays and the power of silence.
Read MoreUzma Aslam Khan is a wonderful writer whose descriptions of the northern part of Pakistan and the fast fading way of life that had been lived there for hundreds of years are sometimes stunning.
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