Leonard Fleischer
By Leonard Fleischer
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Culture Exquisite Knowledge of Destruction
‘Incident at Vichy” is generally considered one of Arthur Miller’s lesser plays. It was first produced in 1964, in the temporary home, near Washington Square, of New York City’s newly created Lincoln Center Theater. Despite a stellar cast including David Wayne, Hal Holbrook and Joseph Wiseman, and direction from Harold Clurman, this much anticipated drama…
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Culture The Unfolding Drama of Jewish America
Beyond the Golden Door: Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience By Julius Novick Palgrave Macmillan, 200 pages. $69.95. Upon finishing Julius Novick’s shrewdly insightful, often quite moving survey of Jewish American drama, “Beyond the Golden Door: Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience” — a far more substantive and tasty dish than gruel —…
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Culture A Klassy Novel
A Novel of Klass By Curt Leviant Livingston Press (The University of West Alabama), 330 pages, $16.95. Some of Curt Leviant’s earlier novels have been likened to efforts by such foreign literary giants as Borges, Kafka and Calvino. His latest work, “A Novel of Klass,” suggests the influence of more domestic sources, including the Marx…
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