In Orphansâ Twilight, Memories of a Doomed Utopia
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Octogenarians who fled Poland before their orphanage was forced into a ghetto are among the last links to Janusz Korczak, who inspired the declaration of childrenâs rights.
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Comment is free: Ian Jack: To read the diaries of Anne Morrow Lindbergh is to be taken to the heart of parental anguish.
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ÂTeam 10: A Utopia of the Present,Â at the Yale School of Architecture, weaves a portrait of European architects who built a sense of community identity into their works.
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4pm update: The first home of literature's most celebrated siblings lived up to its reputation as cursed when it failed to make its reserve price at auction.
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These stories sound a familiar theme for Alice Munro: that life is precarious, that flux is a given, that certainty will always be elusive.
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Standing on the threshold of the 20th century, the world seemed so young and carefree. In the warm summer air, the songs of birds could be heard and at times drowned out by the whir of the lawn mower. The clip clop of horses' hooves could be heard along the unpaved streets where children played their games. In the cool evenings, the lamplighter made his rounds. Shadows danced off buildings and sidewalks. There were those who enjoyed swinging lazily in the hammock or lazily gliding their canoe on some moonlit lake. Everything seemed settled and comfortable in familiar patterns, but there were changes in the wind. In a little more than 15 years, there would be almost three quarters of a million Model T Fords on the roads in North America.
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A strong ensemble keeps a memory of a rooming-house childhood from slipping into sentimentality
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A cautionary bedtime tale for kids and their freaked-out parents.
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In âAllegro,â the past is a shadowy night town whose geography is continually rearranging itself.
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In her keenly observed novel âFlower Children,â Maxine Swann depicts four children who worry that their hippie parentsâ unconventional lifestyle has put them outside the mainstream of ordinary life.
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In Latin America, the memory of the "disappeared" never went away. In the United States, they were hardly ever known.
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Set at a small Catskills  resort in the 1950s, when writers were blacklisted for alleged  Communist sympathies, Michael Elias&#39; play is shot through with  the kind of nostalgia that signals deep personal involvement.  But it leaves out the details of why this means something to  him, and so it fails to engage the audience with an emotional  back story.
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Pavol Liska's pared-down adaptation of Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters" exposes the play's absurdist humor and howling sadness.
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âVanajaâ is a coming-of-age tale that is engrossing, if slightly overlong, and absolutely timeless.
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Thirteen years in the making, Christiane CegavskeÂs stop-motion fairy tale is at once wondrously obsolete and perfectly au courant.
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Four decades after it was abandoned, King Island holds an almost mystical pull for former inhabitants and their descendants, its crumbling homes still perched on stilts, clinging to the steep, rocky terrain.
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âYouth Without Youthâ is a narratively ambitious, visually sumptuous surrealist enterprise that tries to bend time and space together as neatly as the folds in an origami swan.