Alice Walker’s daughter ponders her kaleidoscopic self.
Rachel Greenwald, David Quammen, Pete Dexter, and Zoe Trope.
The King is alive
A vagina dialogue with half a Heart.
Writing away the writer’s-block blues.
Also: The Ugly American.
A black Salesman arrives with pressing questions.
An opinionated guide to this week’s gallery and museum shows.
Science, drama, travelogue—there’s a jumble of themes in this quake book that would be more solid told separately.
But they don’t seem very happy in Nicola Barker’s strange novel.
The author of Homebody/Kabul on arrogance, nostalgia, and the insufficiency of art.
A posthumous CD release captures the spark of a talent gone too soon.
a moral Afrikaner
JUDITH SCHAECHTER Taking the medieval narrative panel as her launching pad, this stained glass artist creates sappy, violent, and just…
No play is good enough for the Pulitzer panel. Plus: Items on Shawn Wong and the late Scott Weldin.
Tiny toy ninjas bring an odd new humanity to Hamlet.
“For the river, there is late November only, and the color of a slow winter,” Richard Hugo once wrote about…
Bonding with the author rather than with her work.
Brittany A. Daley, Bill Hicks, Lucius Shepard, and Graham Lord.
An intimate and frustrating look at the plight of “third-generation” Jews.
