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Real Boys Don’t Think About Thinking So Much

I’m standing outside the dorm rooms. It’s nearly the night, the sky a heavy blue, the trees turning black, the street lamps have come on. ...

by Thomas Stewart | August 26, 2015April 22, 2019
Arts & Culture

Review: How To Be Both by Ali Smith

The word I’ve most seen associated with Ali Smith’s Costa-award winning novel is ‘dazzling’, and it’s the word I’ve reached for most, each time more ...

by Bella Whittington | August 24, 2015April 22, 2019
Arts & Culture, Literature

Are We Writing Pornography?

From Wetlands to The Time Traveler’s Wife, sex is a big part of many of our lives and it is, indeed, all around us, whether ...

by Thomas Stewart | August 12, 2015April 22, 2019
Arts & Culture

Tough Boys Don’t Read About Boys Kissing Boys

I can relate, I can understand but I’m not being allowed to see anything, read anything, experience anything that I want to experience in real ...

by Thomas Stewart | July 29, 2015April 22, 2019
Arts & Culture

A Tale of Two Cities

After dinner, we headed home, oblivious that Miami in general, but 79th Street and Biscayne Boulevard in particular, had gone up in flames. ...

by Diana J. Wynne | July 25, 2015January 21, 2022
Arts & Culture

The Freaks Live in Suburbia

That’s where we come in, we’re watching through the writer, seeing them as freaks because that’s how they’re portrayed. Continue Reading The Freaks ...

by Thomas Stewart | July 15, 2015April 23, 2019
Arts & Culture

Dion, Suite for Late Summer

It is fashionable to rediscover brilliant but unrecognized records. Perhaps it’s an appeal to the notion that good work should be acknowledged — that wrongs ...

by Christian Brown | July 11, 2015April 23, 2019
Arts & Culture

Mesmerizing: The Mesmeric Revelations of Edgar Allan Poe

The number of shows that I’ve been to that sweep you up into a world so complex, so narratively tight and visually arresting and thematically ...

by Tara Isabella Burton | May 29, 2015April 23, 2019
Arts & Culture

A Pirate’s Life for She

How do women maintain their authority aboard a ship of men unaccustomed to taking orders from the would-be fairer sex – other than, in the ...

by Tara Isabella Burton | May 29, 2015April 23, 2019
Arts & Culture

Enter the Dollhouse: Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic

Its pastiche is as ambitiously diffuse as a night at the Ziegfield Follies itself – and if the production as a whole veers towards the ...

by Tara Isabella Burton | May 29, 2015April 23, 2019
Arts & Culture

Wolf Hall: Bookended

An executioner is in a bit of a pickle. He can’t seem to match his victims’ bodies to their recently severed heads. Continue ...

by Alex Brinkman-Young | May 9, 2015April 23, 2019
Arts & Culture

Motherhood and Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles

Throughout the play, we see the development of Heidi Holland, an art-historian passionate about ensuring that female as well as male artists are recognized and ...

by Alex Brinkman-Young | May 8, 2015April 23, 2019
Arts & Culture

All About the Ladies (Their Voices, That Is): Don Giovanni at the Met

When it goes well, it can be brilliant – as the productions of The Marriage of Figaro at the Met during this season and Cosi ...

by Nicholas M. Gallagher | May 7, 2015April 24, 2019
Arts & Culture

Between Riverside and Crazy: Something Like Grace

As in all of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s plays, Between Riverside and Crazy drops you off at the intersection of absurd, tragic, profane, and sublime. The ...

by Alissa Wilkinson | May 6, 2015April 24, 2019
Arts & Culture

Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic Review

Brooklyn resident Monica Burton explores Wiley’s new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. Continue Reading Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic Review

by Monica Burton | April 8, 2015April 24, 2019
Arts & Culture

The Met’s War Horse (and a Few Real Ones): La Bohème

This is our third review together, dear reader, and by traditionalist reckoning this is either when you should give me a goodnight kiss or gently ...

by Nicholas M. Gallagher | March 6, 2015March 6, 2015
Arts & Culture

Boy Meets Girl Meets Poisonous Plant: Belladonna at the 92nd St Y

Knowledge may be power. But in Belladonna, a “Rappaccini’s Daughter”-inspired dance piece from Adam Barruch and Chelsea Bonosky, too much power can be toxic. Inspired ...

by Tara Isabella Burton | March 5, 2015
Arts & Culture

The Past, Adapted: An Octoroon

What is a black play? Who is a black playwright? These are just some of the difficult questions posed by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’s darkly (no pun ...

by Ann Daniels | March 5, 2015
Arts & Culture

The Point of Everything: Richard Linklater’s Boyhood

Cee Jaye examines Richard Linklater’s Oscar-nominated film Boyhood, and the director’s continuing examination of time. Continue Reading The Point of Everything: Richard Linklater’s ...

by Cee Jaye | March 3, 2015March 3, 2015
Arts & Culture, Travel&Lifestyle

Literary London: A Recommended Reading List

For your next trip to this cosmopolitan labyrinth, pack your bags (or load your e-reader) with this quintessential London reading list from Jamie Leigh. ...

by Jamie Leigh | March 2, 2015March 27, 2015