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Pauline Kael capitalized on counterculture snobbery, the pecking order of the oh-so enlightened.
As my second wave feminist companion said as we left the theater, “That was hilarious. And I am SO ANGRY.”
From the first page of Martha Ackmann’s new book on Emily Dickinson, you know you’re reading something entirely different.
Storytelling is big business in concert halls these days, and as a yarn spinner Sarah Walker is in a class her own.
The apocalyptic mayhem is glorious and certainly cathartic. Still, I have to ask: is this how women will rise up and take what’s ours? With violence?
There’s a funny, parabolic quality to the emotional weather in Weather — amidst all the unsettling harbingers, the sensation of being in end times, there is still love.
Carolynn Kingyens’s debut book of poems, Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound, reminds us of our everyday struggles.
Strange Hotel focuses on a woman’s life in middle age, suspended between the hollow satisfactions of memory and anxiety about the future.
Arts Commentary: Politics IS Performance — A Director Evaluates the Candidates
Politicians are forced to perform on a massive stage and under the fierce gaze of a thousand lenses, yet few have real skills in that arena.
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