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A Tale of Midlife Love With a Bombshell Ending
In her new novel, “Leaving,” Roxana Robinson reunites a former couple. One of them is divorced; the other is still…
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Common Credits Ralph Ellison for Pointing Him Toward Music
What books are on your night stand? The Bible, “The Selected Works of Audre Lorde,” edited and with an introduction…
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Waiting in the Snow for a Phone Call, Mixing Memory and Desire
Cynthia Zarin’s first novel, “Inverno,” is a tale of a woman’s incurable longing and haunted past.
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Sizzling, Sparking, White-Hot Romance Novels
In romances — whether on the page or the screen — we want characters with chemistry, who spark and combust…
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A Russian Journalist’s Love Letter to Her People
“I Love Russia,” a collection of Elena Kostyuchenko’s reporting over the past 15 years, captures the lives of ordinary, often…
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In ‘Big Trip,’ an Exiled Russian Director Asks: What Makes Us Human?
Dmitry Krymov’s two shows at La MaMa thrillingly stress the porosity of the line between life and storytelling.
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Out of the Closet and Into the Garden
My Jamaican mother’s hopes for life in America did not include me being gay. So how would I ever bloom?
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Felt Like a Particle of Light’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Gay, Dominant, Single, White, Female’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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