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Lessons for the End of the World
And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...
Grieving the End of a Literary Couple’s Globetrotting Life
In “Memorial Days,” Geraldine Brooks retreats to an island off Australia hoping to pick up the pieces after the sudden death ...
Three Decades Later, This Daniel Day-Lewis Epic Still Holds Up as One of the Best War Movies Ever Made
the film's final sequence, which is arguably one of the best endings in war cinema. Encapsulating the film's greatness is its Oscar-winning sound design, which makes for poetic overtures captured by ...
‘The Stained Glass Window’ Review: A Light on the Past
The image of the writer’s grandmother in an Atlanta church invited him on a journey into family history.
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One of the Oldest Surviving Operas by a Black American Composer Will Be Performed for the First Time—138 Years After It Was Written
Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...
The Greatest Film Adaptations of 19th-Century Literary Classics
Whether we prefer Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, or Thomas Hardy, we must admit many of fiction's rockstars ...