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...Alabama native who now lives in Chicago, has been quietly assembling an impressive body of work. Spinning into Butter, about the ramifications of a racist incident on a college campus, had a successful run at the Goodman last year. Her earlier play The Glory of Living, a shockingly deadpan portrait of a teenage girl who helps her husband abduct and kill young women, was produced at London's Royal Court Theatre early last year and won Gilman the Evening Standard award for most promising playwright. Yet because none of her work has been seen in New York City--that theater...
...move that pundits are saying is designed to demonstrate his hitherto virtually unknown ability to compromise, the mayor on Monday struck a deal to end his dispute with the Brooklyn Museum, from which he had withdrawn funding last year over its exhibition of an elephant-dung-smeared "Virgin Mary" portrait and other controversial art. In the agreement, the city will continue to fund the museum at its current level and the museum will drop a First Amendment suit it had filed against the city...
...Balkans, it was knives and gunfire that moved millions of refugees. In Asia and Latin America, the simple but still desperate search for work pushed millions to the overpacked cities. The pictures on this and the following pages, from his new book, Migrations (Aperture; $100), are a portrait of what Salgado calls "the reorganization of the human family...
...Seeing Mary Plain (Norton; 939 pages; $35), Frances Kiernan, a former fiction editor at the New Yorker, has written a portrait not only of McCarthy, the critic and novelist, but also of her literary generation. Kiernan's book teems with a splendid cast of characters--starting with McCarthy's Partisan Review crowd of the 1930s and '40s (Philip Rahv, William Phillips, Delmore Schwartz and Dwight Macdonald), then widening to include other figures in McCarthy's busy, contentious life, including Wilson, whom she called "the monster," her unexpected soul mate Hannah Arendt and dozens of gifted walk-ons, such as Robert...
Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology Irven DeVore's portrait, features a ghastly white man, with a bandaged head who looks an awful lot like Frankenstein...