Sifting the Dustbin of Literary History
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The Mint Theater Company has proved that just because a script isnât known or produced doesnât mean itâs not good.
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Brian Springerâs bizarre documentary âThe Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulityâ is, among many things, a treatise on how history is passed along.
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Arts & entertainment: As Granta magazine celebrates its 100th issue, we ask how a Cambridge journal conquered the literary world
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The literature of the American theater is chockablock with dysfunctional-family dramas, stories about fathers loathing mothers, wives resenting husbands, brothers and sisters who care too much
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Feminism breaches walls of the fortress after over 500 years
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In a season flooded with film biographies, there are fascinating books offering fresh and sometimes alternative views of people we've come to know onscreen.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s more than 20 books shaped discussions for two generations about Americaâs past.
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Volunteers sorting through donated books for a book sale found an abolitionist text and a slave's memoir, both dating back to the 1800s.
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including out of print volumes -- soon will become part of the vast Google database. Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and the New
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Stephen Greenblatt conjures up the Elizabethan world in which Shakespeare came of age, showing how the era shaped his sensibility and his work.
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A taste of the latest in food memoirs, a thriving literary genre
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Traditionally confined to works of nonfiction, the bibliography has lately been creeping into novels.
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The project involves scanning books and other works from the Civil War and other eras that have until now been thought too brittle for handling.
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Some literary-minded bloggers seemed a little piqued at comments on their hobby made by Doris Lessing in her Nobel lecture this month.
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A British architectural historian has an unusual specialty: he focuses on architectsâ designs that have been taken apart.
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History smells if it doesn't exactly stink. In recent days, as the family is away in Pakistan, I have been amassing old books.
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The Vineyard Theaterâs rare revival of J. M. Barrieâs elegantly plotted ghost story is an occasion of some interest.