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Under the Spotlight
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics by Richard Sennett. Yale University Press, 234 pp., $30.00 The words “performer,” “performance,” and, increasingly, “performativity” (as well as their close cousins “actor” and “acting”) have been taking on a lot of
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Music and Memory
Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler. Knopf, 386 pp., $30.00; $19.00 (paper) In 1958 the Ukrainian-born Russian poet Anna Akhmatova wrote a poem with the simple title “Music.” It bears the d
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‘Deviations and Catastrophes’
Emergency by Kathleen Alcott. Norton, 188 pp., $27.95 Kathleen Alcott’s debut novel, The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets (2012), published when they were twentythree, has an epigraph by Frank O’Hara: “If there is a/place further from me/I beg you do n

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