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There is much to love in this Lyric Stage Company production and I recommend it highly.
Read MoreI urge anyone interested in the voice and or just terrific music to try to attend one of Mirror Visions’ concerts.
Read MoreIf you are going to write about this very charged subject, the West and Islam, why would you choose as a representative of that great and ancient culture a woman who is stunted emotionally, clearly unreliable, and probably mentally unstable?
Read MoreUzma Aslam Khan is a wonderful writer whose descriptions of the northern part of Pakistan and the fast fading way of life that had been lived there for hundreds of years are sometimes stunning.
Read MoreNina Schuyler’s uneven novel raises some interesting questions in the course of the protagonist’s quest, and there are many fascinating details about Japan and Noh plays and the power of silence.
Read MoreThis is a book about “survivor’s guilt,” and also about the terrible loneliness that comes of losing so many whom you love.
Read More“The O’Briens” is a good sink-your-teeth-into read that explores the capricious nature of destiny with grace and humor and shows great compassion for its characters.
Read MoreSome fiction can, literally, have the smell of too much research. And so, although I admire the ambition and scope of Audrey Schulman’s new novel, “Three Weeks in December,” I also feel that she made things harder for herself than she needed to.
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Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2023
An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.
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