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Annalise Nelson
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Ups and Downs in Houellebecq's Strange, Charmed Particle World
By Annalise Nelson •
He's middle-aged, balding and his angst is monumental. But novelist Michel Houellebecq just might become your newest hero. Although Americans
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Chay Yew's Dream of a Common Language in the Leverett Old Library
By Annalise Nelson •
Race. Ethnicity. Homosexuality. AIDS. Partner abuse. Assisted suicide. That the script for Chay Yew's A Language of Their Own can
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Martin McDonagh's Irish Beauty
By Annalise Nelson •
"The Yanks do love the Irish," contemplates Maureen Folan near the end of Martin McDonagh's 1996 play, The Beauty Queen
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ALL THE PRETTY HORSES: FRANZ MARC AT THE BUSCH-REISINGER
By Annalise Nelson •
When Wassily Kandinsky was asked how he and the German painter Franz Marc first came up with the name for
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The Harmonists
By Annalise Nelson •
Remember the movie Swing Kids? That jazzy two hour romp about two best friends growing up in Germany who just