How I worried about Nora’s kids after she left for the first time in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Now, in A Doll’s House, Part 2, just as shockingly as she left, Nora (Laurie Metcalf) comes back. She hasn’t come for a reconciliation with Torvald (Chris Cooper) who she walked out on fifteen years ago. […]
I read Orwell’s 1984 in high school. I knew it was anti-Communism, but since I never lived under a totalitarian regime, I thought it was more like sci-fi. Newspeak, Ignorance is Strength, Ignorance is Power all sounded satirical. Now it feels all too real. OLIVIA WILDE as Julia in her Broadway debut is an actress […]
The Shuttered House
Thyroid cancer is the fastest upswing in cancers among women. Anyone taking dental x-rays and especially mammograms needs to make sure that the dentist or technician puts one on you. Tell everyone you know.
The Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize * $2000 prize * book publication * guest reading at HWS We are accepting submissions from June 1 to August 15, 2017. John D’Agata will be the judge. Lyric essay, for us, encompasses cross-genre work and hybrid forms. By book, we mean a single work or group of related pieces. Page […]