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Playwright and Director James Lapine Puts It Together with Composer Stephen Sondheim

Playwright and Director James Lapine Puts It Together with Composer Stephen Sondheim

Wouldn’t you like to read a marvelous story about the creation of the fabled musical, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s ‘Sunday in the Park with George’?

When the Migrants Come to Collect Their Due: On Suketu Mehta’s ‘This Land Is Our Land’

When the Migrants Come to Collect Their Due: On Suketu Mehta’s ‘This Land Is Our Land’

Suketu Mehta offers a powerful, angry, and brilliant defense of immigrant rights in This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto.

Maylis de Kerangal’s ‘The Cook’ Is a Classic Case of Style Over Substance

Maylis de Kerangal’s ‘The Cook’ Is a Classic Case of Style Over Substance

There is a lot of enjoyable sleight of hand in de Kerangal's The Cook, but ultimately the author fails to engage with the questions it raises.

Short Stories: American Writers of South Asian Origin

Short Stories: American Writers of South Asian Origin

In the US in this year alone there have been new short story collections by at least five fine writers with origins in the Indian subcontinent: Vandana Singh; Akil Kumarasamy; Neel Patel; Chaya Bhuvaneswar; and Anita Felicelli.