'Spring Awakening' Returns To Broadway — In Sign Language
The hit musical only closed six years ago, and now it's back, in a well-reviewed revival featuring hearing and deaf actors, who sing and sign during the performance.
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Elvis Costello: 'There Is No Absolute Right And Wrong About Music'
Throughout his memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, Costello grapples with parallels to his father's life. "In the end, music was playing in the room when my father left this earth," he says.
Remebering Maud Gatewood: UNCG Presents Selection Of Paintings
The late North Carolina artist and educator Maud Gatewood graduated from Woman's College (now UNCG) in 1954.
Finalists Unveiled For This Year's National Book Awards
Lauren Groff, Terrance Hayes, Sally Mann and Ta-Nehisi Coates are among the 20 writers still in the running for the prestigious literary prize. Soon, that number will be whittled to just four winners.
'The Rest Of Us' Is Apocalypse-Adjacent
Patrick Ness' wry new young adult novel wonders what happens to the normal kids who have to make their lives in the margins of the explosive adventures depicted in mainstream young adult fantasy.
Elvis Costello's 'Unfaithful Music' Is Defiantly Fun
The musician's new autobiography doesn't follow the conventions of memoir — it jumps around in time from his childhood to his days in the pop-rock trenches, and it doesn't shy away from ugly moments.
Marlon James Wins Man Booker Prize
James is the first Jamaican author to win the prestigious literary award, for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. It's based on a real 1976 assassination attempt on reggae star Bob Marley.
'Shards' Puts A Fantastic Twist On Jewish Mythology
Matthew Kressel kicks off an Old Testament-flavored fantasy trilogy with this story of a man, abducted by a demon, who learns he's one of 36 hidden saints whose existence preserves the Earth.
This 'Clasp' Doesn't Quite Hold Together
Sloane Crosley's new novel, The Clasp, follows a group of disaffected 30-somethings who gather for a classmate's posh wedding — but the casual misanthropy of the characters dims the book's pleasures.
Revisiting Rabin's Assassination, And The Peace That Might Have Been
Twenty years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was killed by a Jewish religious zealot. Dan Ephron, author of Killing a King, discusses the assassination and its effect on the peace process.