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Monday, January 5, 2026

A Double Life: Frank O’Hara’s Amazing Versatility

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(Bloomsbury Books.) “Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.” ...
Sunday, January 4, 2026

Molière & Menotti

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Clockwise from left: Amber Gray, Matthew Broderick, and David Cross in Tartuffe . (Photo: Marc J. Franklin.) As Tartuffe, the titular charac...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Along the Spectrum: Recent Movies

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Tracey Ullman and Cillian Murphy in Steve . (Photo: Robert Viglasky, Netflix.) Cillian Murphy and the Belgian filmmaker Tim Mielants are a s...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Icke/Sophocles

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From Left: Jordan Scowen, Olivia Reis, Mark Strong, Lesley Manville, James Wilbraham, Anne Reid and Bhasker Patel in Oedipus. (Photo: J. Cer...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Being and Somethingness: Barnett Newman: Here

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Princeton University Press. “Here. A place in the world. Proof that one exists. Barnett Newman spent a lifetime searching for confirmation o...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Two New Books on Indigenous Culture

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I. Talking Skin:  Indigenous Tattoo Traditions: Humanity Through Skin and Ink (Princeton University Press.) “For thousands of years, these c...
Monday, December 8, 2025

White Christmas and A Christmas Carol: Second-Tier Holiday Cheer

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Clyde Alves, Jonalyn Saxer, and the company of White Christmas . (Photo: Diane Sobolewski.) I loved the stage transcription of Irving Berlin...