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Search Results for: roberta silman

Book Review: “Prague Spring” — The Fragility of Freedom

This consistently interesting novel adds an unforgettable dimension to an historical event about which we thought we knew all there was to know.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Other Press, Prague Spring, Simon Mawer

Book Review: Anthony Powell — Among the Most Modern of 20th Century English Writers

Although Anthony Powell’s stock has gone down since he died in 2000, I hope that this new biography will spark interest in A Dance to the Music of Time.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Anthony Powell, Dancing to the Music of Time, Hilary Spurling

Book Review: Edith Wharton and Michelle Obama — Breaking New Ground for Women

What impressed me most about these two different women is they were both products of an America which values determination and wit and intelligence, as well as opportunity.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Becoming, Claudine Lesage, Edith Wharton, Edith Wharton in France, France, Michelle Obama

Book Review: “Washington Black” — Grappling with the Meanings of Liberty

In Washington Black novelist Esi Edugyan has defied the cliché of the escaped slave discovering freedom.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American racism, Esi Edugyan, fiction, knopf, Washington Black

Book Review: “Your Duck Is My Duck” — Not Enough Tingles

Deborah Eisenberg’s stories pull you in and imitate life in an uncanny way.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Deborah Eisenberg, Ecco, short stories, Your Duck is My Duck

Theater Review: “Morning After Grace” — A Cause for Celebration

It is heart-warming that, in these “worst of times,” playwrights like Carey Crim are working quietly to give us a look at new beginnings with humor and tenderness and hope.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Carey Crim, Morning After Grace, Regge Life, Shakespeare & Company

Book Commentary: Philip Roth — American Warnings

In the end, Philip Roth produced the greatest body of work in the 20th century since William Faulkner and Saul Bellow and I.B. Singer.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, Philip Roth, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America

Concert Review: Pharoah Sanders Quartet at Blackman Auditorium

Sometimes Pharoah Sanders came back and played like a primordial saxophone deity, cutting into the rhythm section like an act of penetration.

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Review Tagged: Anthony Wallace, John Coltrane Memorial Concert, Jonathan Blake, Nat Reeves, Pharoah Sanders, William Henderson

Book Review: Tale of Two Short Story Collections, Schutt and Ortese

Schutt’s is an example of the kind of fiction that is being taken seriously in too many quarters in this new century, but that is not nearly good enough.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Anna Maria Ortese, Christine Schutt, Neapolitan Chronicles, New Vessel Press, Pure Hollywood, short stories

Theater Review: “Anna Christie” — A Memorable Look at Life on the Margins

The Lyric Stage production of Anna Christie does right by Eugene O’Neill’s brilliance.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Anna Christie, Lyric stage company of boston, Scott Edminston

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