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The Submerged

The Submerged 

by Will Boast | Wednesday, December 01, 2021
Alphabet of Joy

Alphabet of Joy

by Roberta Silman | Saturday, November 13, 2021
Those Two

Those Two

by Caio Fernando Abreu | Thursday, August 26, 2021
Delta Force

Delta Force

A Grandfather’s Tale

by Jay Neugeboren | Saturday, August 21, 2021
Wicked Brew

Wicked Brew 

by A. E. Stout | Wednesday, June 02, 2021
Binding Agent

Binding Agent

by Robert Cohen | Saturday, May 01, 2021
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January 

“I wonder if I can get the sound of a vase shattering over the phone without actually shattering a vase.”

by Olivia Clare | Monday, December 07, 2020
The Professor’s Wife

The Professor’s Wife

by Isaac Bashevis Singer | Wednesday, September 23, 2020
The Joke

The Joke

by Ray Bradbury | Tuesday, September 01, 2020
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2nd Look

Good Thing Going

by Wendy Smith

Stephen Sondheim, that giant of musical theater, died on November 26. In our Autumn 2007 issue, Wendy Smith celebrated Sondheim’s already enormous legacy, spanning his 1957 Broadway debut (West Side Story) to gutsy later works like Assassins (1990). Sondheim remained a force in the Theater District despite its increasingly commercialized landscape, and “as long as musical theater exists,” Smith wrote, “his entire repertory will continue to be fruitfully restaged and reexamined.”

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