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Smile, Everyone!

…skeletons does the family have hidden in their closet, and have they managed to achieve the American Dream or only a shifting mirage, bound to fade like the morning dew?…

So Many Secrets

…moving to read. Photo courtesy of Hub City Press “There are so many secrets in your house, you do not even know them all,” Anderegg writes, setting the scene at…

A Game of Pure Chance

The opening pages of Jennifer Haigh’s Rabbit Moon raise questions about the nature of the universe. The epigraph from Voltaire suggests that the world is deterministic: “Chance is a word…

Root, Root, Root for the Home Team

the Hall of Fame, O’Neil’s maxim applies to any of the players who donned the flannels for the Red Sox throughout their 37-year existence. One of the most iconic Red…

The Scientist’s Dilemma

…dialogue, the barriers the protagonists experience, their drive to create and discover, their renegade behavior (cigarettes! trousers!), even their wry humor. The plays are steeped in the hard truths of…

A Long Quest

…output of Nashville. By the time the Americana duo The Civil Wars announced their breakup in 2012, Peacock was riding high as the producer of Barton Hollow, an album that…

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