Arts

What Novels Do

Edwin Frank explains why the twentieth-century novel has the ‘power to breach.’
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Grace & Chaos

A new staging of ‘La forza del destino’ offers audiences the chance to ponder the paradoxes at the heart of what is often considered Verdi’s most “Catholic” opera.
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Gaslit

In ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ Martin Scorsese serves up an inversion of history as we have come to know it, revealing his larger aim—the correction of memory.

Renaissance Man

On this episode, writer Clifford Thompson speaks about his love of art, music, literature, and film. And Kaya Oakes remembers the late Doris Grumbach.
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