Review
From the first page of Martha Ackmann’s new book on Emily Dickinson, you know you’re reading something entirely different.
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Storytelling is big business in concert halls these days, and as a yarn spinner Sarah Walker is in a class her own.
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The apocalyptic mayhem is glorious and certainly cathartic. Still, I have to ask: is this how women will rise up and take what’s ours? With violence?
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There’s a funny, parabolic quality to the emotional weather in Weather — amidst all the unsettling harbingers, the sensation of being in end times, there is still love.
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Carolynn Kingyens’s debut book of poems, Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound, reminds us of our everyday struggles.
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Strange Hotel focuses on a woman’s life in middle age, suspended between the hollow satisfactions of memory and anxiety about the future.
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Go feast your eyes.
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The only way forward, to go beyond American myths of innocence, is to confront the enduring crimes of the past.
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I was blown away by how good After We Leave looks, its subtlety and plausibility and confident simplicity.
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New recordings of Peter Schmoll and His Neighbors and of Euryanthe pose an embarrassing question: why is the opera repertory so narrow?
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