About a third of the way”A Case Regarding the Existence of GodThe heartbreaker of a must-see play by Samuel D. Hunter, one character, Ryan tells the other, to Keith, “I think we share a certain kind of sadness.” Insight seemed almost comically unlikely if it came sooner. Ryan (Will Brill) is introduced to us as …
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IT WAS BAD AND BEAUTIFULHow AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemicby Jack Loweryillustrated. 422 pages. Bold Type Books. 35 dollars. The revolution would not be televised, it would be covered in wheat paste. Don’t underestimate the importance of this starchy makeshift glue in the history of AIDS awareness—a “poster” in the actual town …
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The National Board of Review award premiere is not televised. This fact was proclaimed on stage by host Craig Melvin, and giddy repeated by several guests. The awards premiere is among the last of this year’s Oscars, and the night without television is famous for its candid, rather long, and profane speeches. This year’s premiere …
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HOW BEAUTIFUL WE ARE, By Imbolo Mbue. (Random House, 384 p., $18.) Mbue’s sweeping tale of the struggle between a fictional African village and an American oil company has been named one of Book Review’s Top 10 Books of 2021. According to our critic Omar El Akkad, “Mbue deftly shadows areas of greed. and guilt …
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Their relationship improves as Nicolson observes his friends. She had once experienced shrimp as “frivolous sweet chunks of meat” dipped in mayonnaise. However, upon seeing the exquisite form of a live shrimp, his “unseen genius” is fascinated by its wonderful life like his own. Such natural affinities, he writes, extinguish “the primacy of the self” …
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FAKE ACCOUNTS, by Lauren Oyler. (Catapult, 272 p., $16.95.) In the days after Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election, a blogger discovers that her boyfriend is secretly living a second life online as a right-wing provocateur. Our critic, Katie Kitamura, noted that “Fake Accounts” is “a deadly sensitive, uplifting study of its distortion of people, places, …
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in its tiny lobby theater lab, at West 36th Street, you must show proof of a booster shot to receive your tickets. You also need to wear a high-quality mask, but if you show up unprepared, the box office person will happily deliver one. The wartime youths at the center of Theatrelab’s current play, “This …
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“World building” often refers to how sci-fi and fantasy makers construct their spaces, filling them with imaginary creatures and allegorical meanings. But of all living filmmakers, the most extraordinary world founder may be Pedro Almodóvar. Many directors have a style. Almodóvar evokes a cosmos – a space of bright colors, piercing music (often by Alberto …
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Among the Cognoscenti, Guido Palau is one of the few elites to achieve single-name status in fashion. Tell insiders the British hairdresser’s first name, and they can easily describe her memorable styling “moments.” George Michael “Freedom! ’90” video; Grunge-era Calvin Klein campaigns; simple theatrical collaborations with Alexander McQueen; and crazy Versace shots staged by Richard …
From afar, the Star Apartments residential complex in Los Angeles can be mistaken for luxury condos. Its striking silhouette hovers over the city’s Skid Row neighborhood like cantilevered piles of Lego. But the building designed by renowned architect Michael Maltzan isn’t for Hollywood executives or tech entrepreneurs: It’s one of the world’s most ambitious attempts …
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IN WILD LIGHTby Jeff Zentner It is clear from the start that something rare, almost magical, is taking place in little Sawyer, Tenn., where the first episodes of Jeff Zentner’s “In the Wild Light” take place.“Snake King”). A genius girl lives there, and her mind is the straw that stirs this drink. Delaney Doyle seems …