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Annalise Nelson

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Ups and Downs in Houellebecq's Strange, Charmed Particle World

He's middle-aged, balding and his angst is monumental. But novelist Michel Houellebecq just might become your newest hero. Although Americans


Chay Yew's Dream of a Common Language in the Leverett Old Library

Race. Ethnicity. Homosexuality. AIDS. Partner abuse. Assisted suicide. That the script for Chay Yew's A Language of Their Own can


Martin McDonagh's Irish Beauty

"The Yanks do love the Irish," contemplates Maureen Folan near the end of Martin McDonagh's 1996 play, The Beauty Queen


ALL THE PRETTY HORSES: FRANZ MARC AT THE BUSCH-REISINGER

When Wassily Kandinsky was asked how he and the German painter Franz Marc first came up with the name for


The Harmonists

Remember the movie Swing Kids? That jazzy two hour romp about two best friends growing up in Germany who just