Thomas Madsen
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Oscar Wilde's Number One Fan
Wit and esprit are usually the first words one hears in conjunction with Oscar Wilde's plays, as if anything beyond
Ignatiev's Book Probes Race Wound
"The reader will note that I have written a book about racial oppression without using the term 'racism,'" concludes Harvard
Memory Ignites in Nora Theater's Spoon
When Edgar Lee Masters' classic novel Spoon River Anthology first appeared in 1915, it had the popular advantage of topicality
Fogg Marks Centennial
The first Fogg Art Museum opened in 1895 on the site where Canaday Hall now stands. A cramped grey building.
Marking the Fogg's Century This Weekend
This weekend Harvard Art Museums will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Fogg beginning with an evening of poetry at
Getting Personal (and Political) with Wendy
Wendy Wasserstein won't be put on a pedestal. She prefers a simple 'Wendy,' she doesn't like too much meaning ascribed
Missing the Sixties, An Apocalypse Of His Own
By now Generation X musings seem perfectly dead--or at least you wish they were. Douglas Coupland always struck you as
Bergman's Fantasies Live On at The HFA
Whatever compulsion artists feel towards self-portraiture, the pictures they paint clarify their artistic vision more than their personal characters. No
Seven Comes Up Lucky for Wilson
Following the critical and popular successes of Fences and The Piano Lesson, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson once again captures
Three's (Almost) A Charm for the Nora
Long before Chekhov ever wrote his classic plays The Seagull. The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya and sometime after he