The production checks off each convention you might think belongs to non-Jamie Lloyd contemporary theatre one after the other ...

Zahid Rafiq’s powerful collection, ‘The World with its Mouth Open,’ bears witness to the decades-long damage suffered by ...

In her long-awaited return to fiction, the author of "Americanah" presents her intricately-woven novel that explores love, ...

Award-winning Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ’s new novel Dream Count has landed. It’s been over a decade since ...

Brian Castleberry’s new novel, “The Californians,” spans eras of American history, telling the story of two intersected ...

“Macbeth” may be Shakespeare’s most transfixing tragedy, but its dark magic often fizzles in the theater. The stage is littered with “Macbeth” disasters. Other plays may have an equally ...

Michael Mayes leads the cast as Macbeth, the Scottish general who becomes king after murdering the reigning monarch. Mayes is a villain with a velvet-smooth baritone — his big Act IV aria was ...

A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by Hollywood. By Charles Finch “Careless People,” a memoir by a former ...

For his 10th opera, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi adapted Shakespeare’s epic tragedy “Macbeth” to produce an equally stormy drama, replete with political power grabs, paranoia, witches and ghosts.

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A new book by the historian Linda Gordon considers seven social movements that transformed the country — not all of them for the better. In her first novel since “Americanah,” she draws on a ...

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