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Gregory Pardlo: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________ Raisin I dragged my twelve-year-old cousin to see the Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun because the…
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“Do I Have Opinions?” [by Molly Arden]
Yes! Yes to "Blue Poles"!Yes to the pool table's six holes! I believe in Romeo, as Juliet saidwhen she lay in the coffin pretending to be dead. That Tonto is no good, said the…
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In Praise of Idleness” [by Paul Violi]
For the second time this weekI've watched snow fall at sunrise,dawn arrive on a breeze(the way I think it always does).I don't know which, time or the weather,woke me, charmed me out of a…
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Marilyn Monroe as Chanteuse [by David Lehman]
We don't think of her as a singer, but Marilyn Monroe (whose birthday it is ) sang — and sang well. Unlike Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak in Pal Joey, Deborah Kerr in The King and…
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On the ideal novel: Latent in every sentence is an alternative [By Sean Ashton]
All one could do was to glimpse, amid the haze and chimeras, something real ahead, just as persons endowed with an unusual persistence of diurnal cerebration are able to perceive in their deepest sleep,…
