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Carolynn Kingyens’s debut book of poems, Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound, reminds us of our everyday struggles.
Strange Hotel focuses on a woman’s life in middle age, suspended between the hollow satisfactions of memory and anxiety about the future.
The only way forward, to go beyond American myths of innocence, is to confront the enduring crimes of the past.
I was blown away by how good After We Leave looks, its subtlety and plausibility and confident simplicity.
Gish Jen’s new novel asks, Is ambition worthwhile in a world without justice?
New recordings of Peter Schmoll and His Neighbors and of Euryanthe pose an embarrassing question: why is the opera repertory so narrow?
A victim Adrienne Miller is most certainly not: the self-portrait that emerges in her pages is of an accomplished, wise, wittily self-deprecating author of her own destiny.
The amazing Bereishit Dance Company asks how dance fits into the physical world.
The Field is a fairly original, if slightly problematic, folk horror-tinged story.

Arts Commentary: Politics IS Performance — A Director Evaluates the Candidates
Politicians are forced to perform on a massive stage and under the fierce gaze of a thousand lenses, yet few have real skills in that arena.
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