Review
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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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.
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For me, Sweat hits its riveting stride in its second half, when the pressures of the strike tests the relationships of its working class characters.
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The amazing Bereishit Dance Company asks how dance fits into the physical world.
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The Field is a fairly original, if slightly problematic, folk horror-tinged story.
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Lawrence Joseph makes the case that representing violence in verse is necessary because of poetry’s value as art: to concisely capture these deadly events.
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Amina Cain’s style is unusual, and it may tow readers so rapidly through this brief novel they won’t look back.
The message of August Wilson’s final play: the future rests not on the number of Whole Foods we build but on the culture we value.
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