Review
Claire Tomalin narrates her story with a prototypically English stiff upper lip, and a reticence about the personal.
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The strength of The Mars Room is its compelling vision of the stultifying and claustrophobic underworld of women in prison.
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Ilan Stavans’ latest book is an engrossing potpourri of this thinker’s continuing thoughts about language, culture, and the self.
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Taylor Mac and Pirandello share the same goal: reveal the deadening vacuity at the heart of bourgeois society and the male ego.
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JoAnn Falletta’s recording of Schreker’s orchestral works is fantastic; Manfred Honeck and his Pittsburgh Symphony make Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony shocking again, and Baiba Skride proves a strong advocate for Miklós Rózsa’s Violin Concerto.
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Most of the time, Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of Macbeth is compelling.
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This is a first-rate production of a true American classic.
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Violinist Viktoria Mullova supplies one of the year’s most programmatically-cohesive and thoughtfully-executed albums.
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Some may find the Lise Meitner’s story cathartic, others may think it is frustratingly familiar.
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The twelve stories in this collection are set in radically different places, use multiple forms, and reflect varying levels of political engagement.
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