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63) A Yuletide kiss
64) Dual image
66) Barton Fink
68) The Debba
In Middle East lore the Debba is a mythical Arab hyena that can turn into a man who lures Jewish children away from their families to teach them the language of the beasts. To the Arabs he is a heroic national symbol; to the Jews he is a terrorist. To David Starkman, “The Debba” is a controversial play, written by his father the war hero, and performed only...
71) Maya's big scene
Rebecca Lopez enjoys a life of privilege in Elizabeth's England, yet she guards secrets that would be anyone's undoing. The beautiful, tempestuous daughter of the queen's own physician, Rebecca is also a converso — a Jew who practices her banned religion clandestinely....
Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary McCarthy said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" In A Difficult Woman, renowned historian Alice
Kessler-Harris
...Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize's 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award
What accounts for Shakespeare's transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed[ing] where others have fallen short." (Boston Globe)
1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During
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