Bad Roads – a form of oral history about the ongoing war in Ukraine – is a political act, documenting a shocking reality in a conflict characterized by fakery.
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Too much misery toughens the heart, whereas the best art softens it. Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle is art of the latter kind.
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Sonia Brownell married George Orwell on his consumptive deathbed in 1949. This strong play gives a compelling insight into this extraordinary figure.
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Hir, Taylor Mac’s raucous black comedy about small-town American values and trans politics, is both daringly subversive and very, very funny.
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I saw Anatomy of a Suicide the night of the election. As it turned out, it could have described the results.
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Swing Time, an outlier in Zadie Smith’s oeuvre, is stylistically interesting, socially aware, funny and wise.
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An Inspector Calls is a GCSE staple, but, asks Emily Bueno, does it really have any relevance?
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This Marlowe revival is visually spectacular but somewhat superficial.
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It is a story that is devastating because its married protagonists, Pauline and Michael, make misery their quotidian experience.
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