Carrie Callaghan’s historical novel Salt the Snow is so rich in detail that I found myself transported to the streets of 1930s Moscow. The frigid cold of the Russian winter is palpable—along with the stark living conditions, the nineteenth century mansion that’s been repurposed as a newspaper office …
Read MoreTo meet Gene Bruskin is to meet a titan of the labor movement. Talking with him opens up a world that most history books barely broach. A tall, burly man with a booming voice, wispy gray hair and a constant cough that interrupts just about every other sentence, Bruskin is the embodiment of what it means to be a grassroots labor organizer.
Read MoreShipwreck, which starts out as a conventional drama about a group of old friends gathering together for a weekend, meanders its way from the mundane to the surreal. It wanders deliberately and just as deliberately leaves the viewer with more questions than answers.
Read MoreWhen I asked the author why collaboration with other artists is so important to him, he told me, “It’s what feeds me, what keeps me alive.”
Read MoreWhile other American girls were joining girl scouts and sports teams, Keena lived in a tent and learned to track and watch out for wild animals, like elephants, leopards, hippos, impala, kudu, and even lions. Except, that is, whenever her parents needed to return to Philadelphia.
Read MoreThe Havel Project reminds us that the stubborn determination of the individual can undermine totalitarian systems, and that revolutions can be born of childlike imagination and whimsical fun.
Read More“The absence of people of color in the greatest of white literature,” Scott said. “I do think that it's a weird absence. It's a gaping hole. ... [W.E.B.] Du Bois’s line about race, ‘the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line,’ is true. And now we're into the twenty-first.”
Read MoreRight to Be Forgotten, a timely new play for the digital age written by Sharyn Rothstein and directed by Seema Sueko, is having its world premiere production at Arena Stage, in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle.
Read MoreRight to Be Forgotten, a timely new play for the digital age written by Sharyn Rothstein and directed by Seema Sueko, is having its world premiere production at Arena Stage, in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle.
Read MoreIn Mike Maggio’s new collection of short stories, Letters from Inside, bizarre things happen to ordinary people. “M,” while crossing Washington’s Key Bridge, finds himself unwittingly at the center of a scandal that sweeps the city.
Read MoreYoung Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) will be celebrating its Annual Affairs of State Awards Gala and Fundraiser on October 19, 2019 at the Sidney Harman Hall, home of the Shakespeare Theatre.
Read MoreArena Stage’s production of August Wilson’s Jitney, newly extended through October 27, 2019, is a tour de force. It’s moving.
Read MoreThis past month, the Westmoreland Congregational Church hosted “Visions of Home: An Afternoon of Palestinian Poetry and Art.”
Read MoreWalking through the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ new exhibition, The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction, is a solemn, intimate experience.
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