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Writing as Transformation
It seems to me that I have wanted to write for the whole of my life. The intensity of this insistence, despite its implausibility, suggests an emotional, rather than...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste Gives a Performance for the Ages in “Hard Truths”
We first met Hortense Cumberbatch, the soft-spoken optometrist at the heart of Mike Leigh’s wonderful 1996 film, “Secrets & Lies,” at a funeral. The camera paid her little mind....
Requiem for a Refugee Camp
Whenever I hear the Arabic word mukhayyam, or camp, my mind leaps to Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza. I was born in Al-Shati refugee camp, a few miles...
Syria Faces Its Past and Its Future
In the field, Moises is restless and relentless, working from early morning till late at night with a professional’s calm. But his eye is unfailingly compassionate, and at times...
Counting Down to 2025 in N.Y.C.
Sheldon PearcePearce has covered music for Goings On since 2020.Celebrations abound as we wrap up yet another staggering year of concerts. Over the weekend, the Hot 97 d.j. Funk...
Diana Ejaita’s “Midnight Moments”
With the frantic pace of modern life, it’s easy for the days to turn into weeks to turn into months without notice. But as the final moments of a...
The Year the Metropolitan Opera Declared War on the Critics
Can the art of opera ever escape the suffocating grip of its magnificent past? Judging from the striking array of contemporary works that reached American stages in the past...
He’s Making a List, and Checking It Twice
He may also run it through ChatGPT, just to polish it up. Source link
Kyle Abraham’s Extraordinary Dance Memoir
Kyle Abraham is one of today’s most sought-after choreographers. He has been on the downtown contemporary-dance scene for more than two decades, and in 2006 he founded his own...
For Isabella Rossellini, Acting Goes Beyond Words
Isabella Rossellini’s first exposure to the public glare was at five days old. Her father, the Italian neo-realist director Roberto Rossellini, and her mother, the Swedish movie icon Ingrid...
