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Roberta Silman

Book Review: Edith Wharton and Michelle Obama — Breaking New Ground for Women

What impressed me most about these two different women is they were both products of an America which values determination and wit and intelligence, as well as opportunity.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Becoming, Claudine Lesage, Edith Wharton, Edith Wharton in France, France, Michelle Obama

Book Review: “Washington Black” — Grappling with the Meanings of Liberty

In Washington Black novelist Esi Edugyan has defied the cliché of the escaped slave discovering freedom.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American racism, Esi Edugyan, fiction, knopf, Washington Black

Book Review: “Your Duck Is My Duck” — Not Enough Tingles

Deborah Eisenberg’s stories pull you in and imitate life in an uncanny way.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Deborah Eisenberg, Ecco, short stories, Your Duck is My Duck

Theater Review: “Morning After Grace” — A Cause for Celebration

It is heart-warming that, in these “worst of times,” playwrights like Carey Crim are working quietly to give us a look at new beginnings with humor and tenderness and hope.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Carey Crim, Morning After Grace, Regge Life, Shakespeare & Company

Book Commentary: Philip Roth — American Warnings

In the end, Philip Roth produced the greatest body of work in the 20th century since William Faulkner and Saul Bellow and I.B. Singer.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, Philip Roth, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America

Book Review: Tale of Two Short Story Collections, Schutt and Ortese

Schutt’s is an example of the kind of fiction that is being taken seriously in too many quarters in this new century, but that is not nearly good enough.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Anna Maria Ortese, Christine Schutt, Neapolitan Chronicles, New Vessel Press, Pure Hollywood, short stories

Theater Review: “Anna Christie” — A Memorable Look at Life on the Margins

The Lyric Stage production of Anna Christie does right by Eugene O’Neill’s brilliance.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Anna Christie, Lyric stage company of boston, Scott Edminston

Theater Review: “Orlando” — Asking What Gender Really Means

There is much to love in this Lyric Stage Company production and I recommend it highly.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: A. Nora Long, Lyric Stage Company, Orlando, Sarah-Ruhl, Virginia Woolf

Book Review: Charlotte Salomon — A Magnificent Act of Faith

To mark the hundredth birthday of Charlotte Salomon, who is emerging as one of the 20th century’s great artists, come two fabulous volumes dedicated to her work.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Charlotte Salomon, Life? or Theatre?, Overlook Duckworth, Taschen

Book Review: “Surviving Jersey” — Chronicling Wild Times

This superb volume is much more than a group of essays; it is a tale with a trajectory fashioned by a writer who is determined to be achingly honest.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: creative non-fiction, Danger and Insanity in the Garden State, New Jersey, Outpost 19, Scott Loring Sanders, Surviving Jersey

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