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Brando

Literary

Marlon Brando: Hollywood’s Complex, Conflicted Cassandra

Mark Dundas Wood - December 29, 2019

Lithgow

Literary

Weighty Matters, Light Verse: John Lithgow Inks ‘Dumpty’

Putin

Literary

Putin — and the Pecs That Launched a Million Memes

Handke

Literary

Can This Man Be a Nobel Laureate and a Genocide Apologist?

Todd

Literary

Playwright Rebecca Gilman Finds ‘A Woman of the World’

American

Literary

Our Sweet Land of the ‘Indigenous American Berserk’

Adam Epstein - October 14, 2019 1

Mfoniso

Literary

How Two Mfoniso Udofia Plays Became One Night of Theater

Leonard Jacobs - October 7, 2019 0

Lennon

Literary

John Lennon as Only His Half-Sister, Julia Baird, Knew Him

Lynne Taylor-Corbett - September 25, 2019 1

Literary

Miden Voyage: A #MeToo Charge in a Fictional Utopia

Mark Dundas Wood - September 23, 2019 0

Sept. 11

Literary

Is the Tragedy of Sept. 11 Intelligible to Us Yet?

Jennifer Wallace - September 3, 2019 0

Augusto

Literary

Making a Frame: How I Found an Augusto Boal Book in...

Alistair Campbell - August 29, 2019 0

stranger

Literary

‘Stranger’ Days: Remembering the Penelope Ashe Hoax

Mark Dundas Wood - August 26, 2019 0

Reeves

Literary

Bass Reeves, Overlooked American Hero, Gets Hollywood Close-Up

Jose Solís - August 8, 2019 0

animals

Literary

‘Our Symphony with Animals’ Views Uneasy Kinship

Mark Dundas Wood - August 3, 2019 0

Steinbeck

Literary

Mulling Monterey: Steinbeck, Class and ‘Big Little Lies’

Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin - July 11, 2019 0

Streisand

Literary

Pip with Pizzazz: Ethan Mordden Assesses Barbra Streisand

Mark Dundas Wood - July 3, 2019 0

Voyage

Literary

It’s Good to Be Alive

Jose Solís - June 27, 2019 2

Trump

Literary

A Little Bird Told Me: Announcing the Trump Presidential Aviary

Carol Strickland - June 5, 2019 2

Brecht

Literary

The Currency of Bertolt Brecht

Tom Kuhn - May 30, 2019 0

Keyes

Literary

‘The Old Gray Homestead’: Centenary of a Forgotten First Novel

Mark Dundas Wood - May 20, 2019 0

Allison

Literary

Kevin Allison Took a Chance — and the RISK! Paid...

Mark Dundas Wood - April 12, 2019 0

Wharton

Literary

Why Edith Wharton Might Hate My Play

Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin - February 23, 2019 2

Biden

Literary

Biden, Harris, Castro: Do Their Books Have Literary Merit?

Mark Dundas Wood - February 17, 2019 4

American

Literary

When American Expats Sounded the Alarm

Mark Dundas Wood - December 20, 2018 1

Bradford

Literary

When a Favorite Coming-of-Age Novel Turns 50

Mark Dundas Wood - November 23, 2018 0

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THE MARBURY PROJECT

RBG

Politics

RIP RGB, RIP GOP, RIP USA

Elizabeth Burke - September 28, 2020 0

None of the second-rate white men currently on the Supreme Court will receive the honors given to RBG when they finally die.

Artists First? Charting a Future for the American Theater

June 10, 2020

Barra Grant: ‘Miss America’s Ugly Daughter’ No More

February 18, 2020

Immersive Theater Brings Legendary Nellie Bly Back to Life

February 10, 2020

In ‘Halfway Bitches,’ Playwright Guirgis Goes All the Way

December 9, 2019

Ms. and They: Coming to Terms with Terms of Identity

November 21, 2019

‘Malaise’ of President Carter Finds ‘Confidence (and The Speech)’

November 19, 2019

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THE SCENE

Cain

Politics

Herman Cain (and Republicans Unable)

Leonard Jacobs - August 9, 2020 0

And then there was Jerry Falwell, Jr., with his open pants, evangelical FUPA and his hands veering into prime side-boob territory with -- hey, doesn't she have a name?

Which President Ignored Bounties on Our Murdered Soldiers?

July 5, 2020

something just broke

And I Thought, ‘Something Just Broke’

June 10, 2020

Is 2020 Another 1968 — or Civil War?

June 3, 2020

Mask? What Mask? On Being Free to Infect You and Me

May 6, 2020

Life Is a Bleach and Then You Die

April 30, 2020

In COVID-19 America, We All Looked Like Yaks

April 16, 2020