No Return
The Shroud of Turin. An Ohio ghost story. “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.” Basketball with Xenophon and Achilles. Things that should or shouldn’t be done with a Philadelphia...
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Thomas Adès Dances With Death
Totentanz for Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone, and Orchestra (2013) by Thomas Adès New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, conducted by Thomas Adès A medieval frieze destroyed during the Second World...
read moreReadEasy, 12 March 2015
ReadEasy is a new feature for 2015… because you’re worth it. I love Daily Savings Time. No matter what the weather, it makes me feel like spring is here!!!— Danielle Steel...
read moreCurtain Call: No Return
If you still don’t have tickets to see our latest Seriously Entertaining show, No Return, you’re reaching the point thereof, as it’s tonight! Join us at City Winery in New York...
read moreCSI: Vatican
The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell Simon & Schuster, 2015; 448pp “The search for information about the Vatican is maddening,” writes Ian Caldwell, “not because that information...
read more“I don’t believe comedy has limits”: An interview with the Unbreakable Meredith Scardino
Meredith Scardino is a four-time Emmy Award-winning comedy writer for The Colbert Report, where she wrote a hundred jokes a day. Having started her career in the world of animation, she quickly...
read moreReadEasy, 2 March 2015
ReadEasy is a new feature for 2015 — because life’s hard enough already, amIright? https://twitter.com/jenniferweiner/status/570321074988175360 Last Wednesday Tom McCarthy joined Dennis...
read moreAre you there, Antiquity? It’s me, A.E. Stallings
Olives by A.E. Stallings TriQuarterly Books, 2012; 80pp The poems in Olives are smart yet accessible; beautiful but deadly; both tragic and humorous. In her third collection, following Archaic Smile...
read moreReadEasy, 25 February 2015
A new feature for 2015, ReadEasy does the hard work so you don’t have to. Twenty minutes ago, I pressed SEND on my new book. NOW what shall I do?— Joanne Harris (@Joannechocolat)...
read moreStardust: The Rise and Fall of the Great American Songbook
The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song by Ben Yagoda Riverhead Books, 2015; 320pp “Loesser drew a picture of a train with a caboose and said,...
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