‘Places That Weren’t Supposed to Be Places’
Three exhibitions of Caribbean art in New York, San Juan, and Chicago show artists intent on rewriting the history of the region.
July 20, 2023 issue
Poet of Shubert Alley
The late Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick, in Fiddler on the Roof and above all She Loves Me, gave the musical comedy a rare insight, poetic delicacy, and emotional intimacy.
June 30, 2023
Robert Gottlieb (1931–2023)
July 20, 2023 issue
The Pregnancy Plot
In Reproduction, Louisa Hall combines a science-fiction riff on Frankenstein with the isolating reality of pregnancy in the contemporary United States.
July 20, 2023 issue
Unrepentant Pence
Mike Pence’s religiosity may be entirely sincere, but it is also instrumental and highly politicized. He, like Trump, is in show business.
July 20, 2023 issue
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Frances A. Yates: New Light on the Globe Theater“In 1619, the Hermetic philosopher Robert Fludd published a most elaborate theater memory system in which he aimed, like Giulio Camillo, at a universal memory. This is the curious source from which evidence can be drawn about the Globe Theater.”
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