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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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In all of his books, John Julius Norwich remembered that history is a story.
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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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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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Time For Romance: But Beautiful may qualify — if I can even use the term now — as seduction music.
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This is an opportunity to take in the early stirrings of Tennessee Williams’ talent as a playwright.
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For most of its history, jazz has been a macho culture. Sexual ambiguity or gay-ness were subjects of derision.
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Ethan Hawke’s goal as an artist is to connect meaningfully with the world — avoiding artifice is essential in terms of his acting, directing, and writing.
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His beautiful sound is undimmed by time, his sensitivity to nuance is intact, and his choice of virtuoso partners was a delight.
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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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