Bad Roads – a form of oral history about the ongoing war in Ukraine – is a political act, documenting a shocking reality in a conflict characterized by fakery. ...
Too much misery toughens the heart, whereas the best art softens it. Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle is art of the latter kind. Continue Reading The Glass Castle: ...
Sonia Brownell married George Orwell on his consumptive deathbed in 1949. This strong play gives a compelling insight into this extraordinary figure. Continue Reading Mistress, Mother, Executor, ...
Hir, Taylor Mac’s raucous black comedy about small-town American values and trans politics, is both daringly subversive and very, very funny. Continue Reading Absurd Realism: Hir at ...
I saw Anatomy of a Suicide the night of the election. As it turned out, it could have described the results. Continue Reading A Genealogy of Trauma: ...
Swing Time, an outlier in Zadie Smith’s oeuvre, is stylistically interesting, socially aware, funny and wise. Continue Reading Dreaming of Home: Swing Time by Zadie Smith
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An Inspector Calls is a GCSE staple, but, asks Emily Bueno, does it really have any relevance? Continue Reading A Socially Conscious Curio?: An Inspector Calls at the ...
This Marlowe revival is visually spectacular but somewhat superficial. Continue Reading Sympathy For The Devil?: Doctor Faustus at the Barbican Theatre
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It is a story that is devastating because its married protagonists, Pauline and Michael, make misery their quotidian experience.
Continue Reading The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
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