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Theater Reviews: Broadway —The Importance of Being Earnest and Jerusalem

June 5, 2011
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Two New York stage productions offer sterling examples of going maximalist in an increasingly minimalist age

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Visual Arts Review: Robert Barry and Martin Puryear’s Fountain of Youth

May 25, 2023
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Despite their stylistic differences, Robert Barry and Martin Puryear share a similar goal: to include us in their respective inquiries into the nature of mind and liberty, but not do the work for us.

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Film Review: A Not So “Fierce Green Fire”

April 18, 2013
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This documentary plays like a didactic high school civics lesson. I agree totally with its politics while abhorring its unimaginative political correctness.

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Album Reviews: Echoes of Prog — Brad Mehldau and Circe Link & Christian Nesmith

April 14, 2022
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Recently, some artists have come out of the closet and put their prog hearts on their sleeves with new recordings that celebrate the heyday of progressive rock.

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Food Commentary: The Chicken Sandwich Wars — Political Food Fight Revisited

February 28, 2020
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I confess that I was one of those schmucks who tried (and failed) to stay vigilant in my high-minded refusal to eat at Chick-fil-A.

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Arts Remembrance: Critic Stanley Crouch — Jazz as a Metaphor for Democracy

September 21, 2020
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“I’m trying to get people to be at ease with the incredible amount of variety in the United States.”

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Book Review: Long Live 19th-Century Literature!

April 30, 2020
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Like Nina Antonia and Robert Clark, Mark Doty deftly interweaves personal narrative with his literary concerns.

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Theater Review: “The Heart Sellers” — A Moving Homage to Friendship

December 3, 2023
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Dramatist Lloyd Suh takes us on an inner journey by weaving silences into his script that encourage his characters (and us) to reflect and pause.

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Book Review: “V2” — Robert Harris’s Gentler, Kinder World War II

November 19, 2020
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This is history from a distance. Harris’s characters feel more real when they’re working out the equations that will make a missile fly or fall than when they’re fleeing a double agent or a misfiring rocket.

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Book Review: “Mike Nichols: A Life” — Portrait of a Protean Artist

March 4, 2021
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This nearly 600-page text is a closely detailed, comprehensive portrait by a biographer riveted, as many of us are, by his charismatic subject.

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