Drawing the Curtain: Maurice Sendak’s Designs for Opera and Ballet
Going back to his early line drawings, you can see that Sendak liked to populate the world with Sendaks....
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Author: Frances Brent
Book Review | Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land by Amos Oz
Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land by Amos Oz Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018, 138 pp, $15.31 [divider] Amos Oz’s modest new book of nonfiction is a container for some somber thoughts and for scraps left over from earlier lectures and books—refined and re-sorted, though ultimately not completely resolved. The...
Book Review | Eternal Life by Dara Horn
Dara Horn’s new novel, Eternal Life, imagines two characters who have made a sacred pact that consigns them to lives that will never end. Tethered to wearying and repetitive perpetuity, they cannot encounter the crossover from purpose to purposelessness that my mother-in-law experienced. ...
Book Review // A Horse Walks Into a Bar
The earliest comedy I remember with any clarity was created by a famous tragic clown, a circus performer whose painted mouth was perpetually turned down in a frown. Left out of the spotlight, he carried a sledgehammer and ran after the other clowns who wouldn’t...
Book Review // The Girl from Human Street
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The Girl from Human Street by Roger Cohen // Alfred A. Knopf // 2015, pp. 320, $27.95...