Review
There can be no future, Héctor Abad seems to be arguing, when everything you are is hidden away in a time you can never fully know.
A comedy about slavery poses considerable challenges in our #blacklivesmatter times, but the characters bounce gleefully through endless rounds of verbal sparring.
In all of his books, John Julius Norwich remembered that history is a story.
One of the fears of poets and, I imagine, all writers, is that you’ll reach a certain age and you’ll run out of gas.
Time For Romance: But Beautiful may qualify — if I can even use the term now — as seduction music.
This is an opportunity to take in the early stirrings of Tennessee Williams’ talent as a playwright.
His beautiful sound is undimmed by time, his sensitivity to nuance is intact, and his choice of virtuoso partners was a delight.
Not all of the production’s choices pay off, but Hamnet is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind play that strikes at a universal sense of longing.
If Charlie Harmon’s story jumps around a bit and reads rather like a series of diary entries, it’s at the very least engaging and, for the most part, entertaining.
Book Commentary: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “Why I Write” — Incomplete Answer
The old questions, good as they are, are going to be augmented with new ones: Are we creating a world worth living in? Are we creating a world we can continue to live in?
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