The labor union representing stagehands went on strike Sunday against New York’s Atlantic Theater Company, prompting the small but prestigious nonprofit to postpone two productions that...
For decades, conservative Christians opposed to homosexuality cited the Bible scholarship of Richard B. Hays, the dean of Duke Divinity School, who provided a full-on argument...
“It’s after the end of the world. Don’t we know that yet?” The choreographer Angie Pittman said those words onstage Saturday, paraphrasing the Afrofuturist jazz musician...
DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, by Nnedi Okorafor In 2019, after Nnedi Okorafor had grown tired of being called an “afrofuturist,” she coined a new descriptor for...
Perhaps as part of the subterfuge about her age, she often erased this chapter from her life story, preferring to identify with Oklahoma, where the family...
A seemingly unremarkable old woman unspools a life story that had her hobnobbing with New York bohemians in Norton’s fifth novel. Despite coming up in comedy,...
ANOTHER MAN IN THE STREET, by Caryl Phillips Caryl Phillips’s 12th work of fiction, “Another Man in the Street,” opens with Victor Johnson, a cane cutter’s...
WE TRIED TO TELL Y’ALL: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives, by Meredith D. Clark Do you remember where you were in early December...
Richard M. Cohen, an outspoken and award-winning television news producer whose career was eventually derailed by the ravages of multiple sclerosis, which he wrote about in...
VANTAGE POINT, by Sara Sligar Curses are serious business, especially if you’re unthinkably rich. Clara and Teddy Wieland, the scions of Sara Sligar’s novel “Vantage Point,”...
