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American Repertory Theatre: "The Naked Eye," a new satire by Paul Rudnick, the author of "Jeffrey," now through July 3rd (See review, page 3). And "Long Day's Journey Into Night," by Eugene O'Neill, beginning...
...author of Coercive Cooperation: Explaining Multilateral Economic Sanctions, and has written more than 10 articles in the last four years on international political economy and institutions...
Kennedy, the Faulkner of upstate New York, again draws inspiration from Albany, the hometown he once described as an "improbable city of political wizards, fearless ethnics, spectacular aristocrats, splendid nobodies, and underrated scoundrels." The aforementioned now rub elbows and knock heads in a novel that once more demonstrates the author's passion for place and his skill as a literary magician. How else should one describe a writer who moves effortlessly through time and who can summon ghostly characters from previous books to play full-blooded roles in his latest work...
Such Kennediana can enhance appreciation of the author's world without end, but it is not required. Corsage is a self-contained tragicomedy realized in perfectly pitched prose that reveals some of the nobler and most of the baser elements in human nature. In the first of two parallel plots, a pair of practical jokes leads to the Love Nest killings. A second story line relates the daring courtship and tragic marriage of Edward and Katrina, who remarks, "It's quite uncanny what one sets in motion by being oneself." It's a point well taken throughout this tale...
...historical value or theological truth of its contents. A Gospel written by an eyewitness or near contemporary (or even by Jesus himself, as the English title of Thiede's book The Jesus Papyrus seems to imply!) need be no more trustworthy than a later account. I am the author of The Apocryphal Jesus and was pleased to be correctly quoted in your article making the above point, but you inaccurately gave my last name as Lincoln. This error might tell us something about the historical value of contemporary reports. J. KEITH ELLIOTT Department of Theology and Religious Studies University...