People browse publications at a bookshop in Damascus on January 26, 2025. Novels recounting the ordeal of political prisoners rub shoulders with texts of radical Islamic theology in Damascus bookshops after the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad in

Thanks to an abundance of film adaptations of stage productionsdo888, theater-centric books and a spate of newly released cast albums, there’s enough theater to go around from the comfort of home. (There’s also lot to see on and Off Broadway, and yo

As we prepare to turn the corner into 2025, poetry is in the spotlight this week, with new books of verse from Percival Everett and Ryan Ruby, a scholarly consideration of “Paradise Lost” and a (poetry-adjacent) biography of the lyricist Ira Gershwi

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