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Agnes of God
THE Adams production of Agnes of God is as emotional and moving an exploration of the place of religion and sainthood in modern society as one could wish to see. The difficult and often heart-wrenching questions of what constitutes true blessedness and of the appropriateness of such a state...
Added to this charm of style is a story that remains consistently riveting. The convoluted efforts of the psychiatrist Martha Livingstone and Mother Miriam Ruth to discover the truth behind the young nun Agnes' strangled baby have all the fascination of a beautifully morbid detective story. Sex and murder, after...
That's our thing, isn't it? Denial -- of pleasure, of all the stronger emotions. But of course they are there, and I admire the patient way you dig them out of our frozen soil. Dale Uecker flunking his algebra final his senior year and bravely tasting the glories of...
The National Museum of Women in the Arts is a virtuous bore. Until ten years ago, with a few resolute exceptions like Georgia O'Keeffe, Mary Cassatt and Louise Nevelson, women artists were shabbily treated by American museums and either omitted from their collections or treated as token presences. The...