Review
Writing seriously about a play that might not be meant to be taken so seriously presents a risk, but the provocation embedded in the social message of Born Yesterday can’t be escaped.
Read MoreThe script’s suggestion of mythological violence elevates Eyes Shut. Door Open. above the formulaic “dark domestic secrets revealed at a family reunion” plot line.
Read MoreIn Van Gogh and Nature, human beings play a supporting role. Sometimes moths, butterflies, and poppies are the stars.
Read MoreIt is nice to know that there is someone as cultivated and enthusiastic about constitutional history as Professor Akhil Reed Amar.
Read MoreIn this entertaining satire of empire, Christian Kracht makes use of a nihilistic magic realism, without the sweetness one normally associates with that mode.
Read MorePulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker’s John is a haunting feminist drama about women and madness.
Read MoreDark Places fumbles and stumbles as it tries, but fails, to follow all of the possible solutions to the whodunit.
Read MoreWe will always need critics to show us how literature works by revering it rather than interrogating it as if it had committed a crime.
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