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Our obsession with ancestry has twisted roots
From origin stories to blood purity statuses, we have long called on genealogy to serve our own purposes.
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Books
Briefly noted
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“Didn’t We Have Almost Everything”, “La Nijinska”, “Glory” and “How Strange a Season”.
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Books
The realization of a femicide
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A Mexican novelist explores how murderous male rage thrives in a struggling society.
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Theater
Dinosaurs, New Jersey and Imminent Doom in “The Skin of Our Teeth”
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In Lileana Blain-Cruz’s new production of Thornton Wilder’s 1942 play, civilizational conflict is contrasted with the discourse used to counsel collaboration and unity.
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On the television
‘The First Lady’ is a costume drama with a bad wig
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The Showtime miniseries, starring Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson, manages to make life as a White House wife both cosmic and forgettable.
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The talk of the town
David Remnick on the need for political heroes; the art of coinage; Spoon’s idle afternoon on tour; accelerating through Congress; a revival of Alice Childress.
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Theater
Sage “Into the Woods” by Sondheim
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Still ! stars the 1987 Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical, with an all-star cast including Ann Harada, Denée Benton, Sara Bareilles and Neil Patrick Harris.
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Tables for two
Nostalgia with a twist, at Gage & Tollner
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The downtown Brooklyn chophouse, which opened in 1879, has been revived, with classic cocktails, seafood on ice and steak on a menu that incorporates flavors from the chef’s Korean American heritage Sohui Kim.
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