Commentary
Like a Hallmark movie, Dinners with Ruth is an engaging and entertaining story, with episodes of great pathos. It is an upbeat, easy-to-read gift book, which is undoubtedly what its publisher intended.
A superb new translation in one volume of the two Chéri novellas, regarded as Colette’s masterwork.
Television is the new art cinema, chock full of superb examples of storytelling across multiple genres.
The U.S. and the Holocaust leaves a vital question unanswered: Is this the kind of nation we want to live and worship in?
Cultural Feature: Boston’s “Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide” — Still Going Strong After Three Decades
More than 1,400 writers have been featured in G&LR’s uninterrupted run over the last three decades.
Arts critics are not expected to take the cultural temperature; they are there to reinforce the assumption that the business of the arts in America is … business.
Alice Sedgwick Wohl has a disturbing tendency throughout the book to back away from her points even as she makes them, as if afraid she will find herself trapped in some politically incorrect cul de sac or just a bad neighborhood.
When Hackmatack Playhouse closes, that will leave, by my count, just one non-equity, professional summer resident theater in Maine: Acadia Rep (founded in 1973) located in Somesville, near Bar Harbor.
Despite a seven-year record of artistic, social, educational, and organizational success, Junior Programs has, until now, been a forgotten chapter in the history of America’s children’s theater. And we desperately need to remember that chapter now.
Culture Commentary: World War II Was a Race War, and It Isn’t Over
It isn’t exactly news that the genocide of Native Americans was a model for Hitler, but it hit with fresh force in The U.S. and the Holocaust.
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