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18 Jan
2021 January/February, Arts & Culture, Highlights, Visual Moment

Visual Moment | A Biblical Family Torn Asunder

  • January 25, 2021
  • By author-avatar Frances Brent
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Some works of art are perfect receptacles for the stresses and troubles of their times while they are graced with a wisdom that is fundamental and ongoing, making them perpetually relevant.

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The Tunnel by Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua
30 Sep
2020 September/October, Arts & Culture

Book Review | The Other Side of Dementia

  • November 6, 2020
  • By author-avatar Frances Brent
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If you live long enough, you will notice a paradox of aging: Diminishment of memory can sometimes go hand in hand with a greater capacity for complexity and for the kind of revelation that can be seen only through shadow.

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25 Feb
Arts & Culture, Spring Issue 2020, Visual Moment

Visual Moment | The Daring Madame D’Ora

  • October 8, 2020
  • By author-avatar Frances Brent
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Recalling a past that was so different from wartime and its terrors, she wrote: “I was only familiar with one of them, the one perfumed with luxury and flowered with orchids.”

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30 Dec
Arts & Culture, Visual Moment, Winter Issue 2020

Visual Moment | Grand Dame of American Art

  • January 13, 2020
  • By author-avatar Frances Brent
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In many ways, Edith Halpert embodied the spirit of American pragmatism, which is how she explained herself: “I either had to stagnate, which was a thing I dreaded, or go ahead, and the only way to go ahead was to do something beyond what I was doing.”

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09 Sep
2019 September/October, Arts & Culture

Book Review | Steely Veneer, Private Struggle

  • June 28, 2020
  • By author-avatar Frances Brent
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I met Susan Sontag only once; it was after a dramatic reading of a translation of Witold Gombrowicz’s Trans-Atlantyk, which I went to hear with a group of friends in 1994.

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27 Jun
2019 September/October, Arts & Culture, Latest, Visual Moment

Visual Moment | When the Wild Things Sang

  • October 9, 2020
  • By author-avatar Frances Brent
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Going back to his early line drawings, you can see that Sendak liked to populate the world with Sendaks.

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dear zealots
16 Dec
2018 November-December, Arts & Culture

Book Review | Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land by Amos Oz

  • October 8, 2020
  • By author-avatar Frances Brent
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Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land by Amos Oz Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018, 138 pp, $15.31 Amos Oz’s modest new book of ...

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eternal-life
09 Jan
2018 January/February, Arts & Culture

Book Review | Eternal Life by Dara Horn

  • August 14, 2019
  • By author-avatar Frances Brent
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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.

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06 Feb
2017 January-February, Arts & Culture

Book Review // A Horse Walks Into a Bar

  • August 14, 2019
  • By author-avatar Frances Brent
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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 have anything to do with him.

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The Girl from Human Street by Roger Cohen cover
16 Apr
2015 March-April

Book Review // The Girl from Human Street

  • May 26, 2017
  • By author-avatar Frances Brent
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The Girl from Human Street by Roger Cohen // Alfred A. Knopf // 2015, pp. 320, $27.95

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