Month: October 2018

Opera Preview: “Scalia/Ginsburg” — Mining (and Minding) the Political Gap

October 2, 2018
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Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg is a three character comic opera that combines elements of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit and Perry Mason.

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Book Review: “A History of France” — Outsized Heroes on Horseback

October 2, 2018
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In all of his books, John Julius Norwich remembered that history is a story.

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Poetry Review: The Devolution of Eileen Myles

October 1, 2018
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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.

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Arts Commentary: Another View of “The Niceties”

October 1, 2018
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To an extent, The Niceties does probe a fault line between the Democratic Party and the left: a boundary that will rupture sooner rather than later.

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Jazz CD Review: Darren Barrett’s “Time for Romance”

October 1, 2018
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Time For Romance: But Beautiful may qualify — if I can even use the term now — as seduction music.

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