Olga Freidenberg’s journals recorded the indignities and horrors of daily life in the Soviet Union. Review by Gary Saul Morson ...

What the rise of A.I. and the gutting of books coverage across U.S. media will mean for literature. By Dwight Garner In 1981, Donald Barthelme published “Challenge,” a funny and weirdly prescient ...

NEW YORK — Most everyone is lost in August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” a phenomenal drama from the late American Shakespeare that’s set in a Pittsburgh boarding house in 1911. Only some are ...

Rare is the Broadway season that hasn’t been bettered by an August Wilson revival, and this very busy spring is no exception. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, lovingly and astutely directed by Debbie Allen ...

Nearly 40 years after its debut, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” has returned to Broadway. The second installment in legendary playwright August Wilson’s “The Century Cycle,” “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, ...

In “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” one of the greatest plays from August Wilson’s majestic cycle exploring the African-American experience in the 20th century, virtually all the characters are in an ...

Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Barrymore Theatre, 243 West 47th Street. Almost without fail, the brilliance of August Wilson emerges even in mediocre stagings of his plays.

In May, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Lerner’s new novel, a cerebral exploration of technology, family, truth and existence. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the Book ...

Jaafar Jackson's performance nails the look, the voice, the electrostatic moves — and the mix of delicacy and steel that made Michael who he was. Michael Jackson was — and remains — the most ...

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