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Those who want to experience the brilliance of Bertolt Brecht at its mellowest should head down to Yale Rep’s lively and moving production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Read MoreThe photographer and the exhibition both make much of his outsider status and radical departure from the classic, reserved aesthetics of American art photography.
Read MoreMore composers who followed their own distinctive paths when they incorporated jazz into their piano concertos.
Read MoreEditor Jon Stallworthy’s preference in this superb anthology is for poems that question, or provoke questions about, war.
Read MoreAccording to Shelby Steele, white liberals “dissociate” themselves from the past sins of white America by subscribing to the “poetic truth” that the United States is “characterologically evil.”
Read MorePascal Garnier’s characters slip through cracks, cross borders, pass through the thin mirrors of the self, and commit irreparable acts.
Read MoreSaturday’s was the most electrifying, exciting, spontaneous-sounding, inevitable performance of this warhorse (Beethoven’s Violin Concerto) I’ve heard.
Read MoreFor all the attention it receives and the level of cultural relevance it assumes House of Cards ought to be a much better series than its aggressive promotion makes it out to be.
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Book Review: “Erebus” — A Brilliant Hybrid That Bears Witness to Tragedy
Erebus is wonderful, original book that defies categorization.
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