The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983–1994 , by Thomas Mallon, Knopf, 592 pages, $40 Writing in 1985, arguably the worst year of the AIDS crisis, the leftist columnist Christopher Hitchens atta...
06.30.2025 Ifttt.itbehere.com and 3 sitesTunguska On June 30, 1908 , there was a humongous air burst explosion near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Russia. This was Tunguska . So, what, exactly, is humongous/ Well, to be (cough) precise, ...
06.30.2025 Dailykos.com and 4 sitesYou’re a kid. You catch a few seconds of something strange on TV. Those few seconds have a way, sometimes, of paying a call decades later. It happened to author, critic and film curator Michael Koresk...
06.27.2025 Chicagotribune.comMeg Waite Clayton’s riveting ninth novel, Typewriter Beach , shifts from the European settings she has created for earlier novels like The Postmistress of Paris , The Last Train to London , Beautiful ...
07.01.2025 Lithub.comFew artists have had as significant impact on the contemporary theater as she has. On Thursday, June 26, the New York theater community was jolted by a major announcement: Lynne Meadow, the longtime artistic director of Manhattan Theatre Club—one of Broadway and off-Broadway’s most esteemed nonprofit institutions—will step down from her role when a successor is found. The news came as a surprise for one reason: Meadow has helmed the company for an astonishing 53 years, and amid a wave of post-pa...
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