Coming to America
How émigré artists did, and sometimes didn’t, adjust to life and work in America.
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Archive forJanuary, 2008
Awakening, Nightly, at 50
For the last few years, Kate Burton has been bouncing among stage, TV and film work. Now New York audiences will have multiple chances to see the belting side of her.
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Solaris and Apes Hill Club
A mixed-use development in Vail, Colo., and a Caribbean resort community in Barbados.
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Winter. Cross-Country Racing. And Not a Ski on the Course.
Snowshoe races feel far out of the mainstream even though a multitude of them are held each year in North America.
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Canada, but Think of Warmth and Wine
In Osoyoos, located in British Columbia’s wine country, grand chalet-style homes sit next to tiny bungalows that, in many cases, are being purchased to tear down.
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A Small-Town Oasis in the High Desert
Tubac, some 40 miles south of Tucson, is a desert town that’s big with second-home owners.
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A Home for Your Gear, and a Place to Play With It
A growing number of self-storage units are ditching the bright lights, long hallways and sterile atmosphere to become destinations unto themselves.
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Digging for Truth in a Life That’s Built Upon a Lie
Fundamental issues of ethnic and religious identity and the agony of exile are at the heart of “Live and Become.”
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Mehdi and Sarah and Adrien and Manu, Coupling Under a Cloud
The beautifully acted ensemble film “The Witnesses” sidesteps most of its opportunities for high drama, political sermonizing and the jerking of tears.
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A Haircut, With an Affair and Highlights of Support
In the Beirut beauty salon where most of “Caramel” takes place, women of various shapes, sizes, ages and backgrounds gather to bond and gossip.
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An Alienated Bunch Not Dealing With Loss
“Deathbed” is a coolly thoughtful and taut meditation by the stylish playwright Mark Schultz.
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Travels With Hemingway: That’s Not All She Wrote
While “The Maddening Truth” is fascinating as a character study, its weakness as a play is the paucity of dramatic conflict.
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Footnote
Richard Chamberlain and Jan Maxwell will play George and Martha when the Berkshire Theater Festival revives “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
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The Civic Poet
Robert Pinsky’s work speaks to us in our common language and relates that language to our hopes as citizens.
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The Archaeology of Hunger
A history of the Donner party incorporates new scientific evidence.
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Log On. Tune Out.
Lee Siegel looks at the way the Internet is reshaping American culture — and doesn’t like what he sees.
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36 Hours in Cairo
Cairo is third world and first world, Islamic world and pharaonic world, a teeming city that jars all the senses, all at once.
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