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Shakespeare and the City
Recently I checked into a pleasant, fairly sterile Marriott in Shoreditch ahead of my London debut as a playwright...
Weightlifting in the Underground
Harold, the protagonist of Jordan Castro's new novel Muscle Man, is a Gulliver who doesn't travel. Or a Gulliver whose travels only take him back and forth across the campus of Shepherd College...
The Death and Life of Bohemia
Talkin’ Greenwich Village:The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capitalby david brownehachette, 352 pages, $32.50 I moved to New York in 2011 and started hanging out in...
Phono Sapiens
The Crisis of Narration by byung-chul han polity, 100 pages, $16.95 My friend J, a computer programmer, once convinced his former roommate—also a programmer—to watch the Japanese art film...
