This Week in Forward Arts and Culture

By Ezra Glinter May 23, 2011

A.J. Goldmann appreciates Wanda Landowska, the 20th-century champion of the harpsichord.
Micah Kelber profiles Jeffrey Yohalem, winner of head writer award from the Writers Guild of America for “Assassin’s Creed.”
Laura Hodes reviews Joseph Skibell’s “A Curable Romantic,” which was shortlisted for the Rohr Prize.

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Philologos lives like God in Odessa.

Raphael Mostel goes to hear the Dallas Symphony Orchestra perform Steven Stucky’s “August 4, 1964” at Carnegie Hall.
Jay Michaelson tries to find a contemporary form of theodicy.
And in this week’s Yid Lit podcast, Allison Gaudet Yarrow talks to Haley Tanner about her debut novel, “Vaclav & Lena.”

Ezra Glinter is the critic-at-large of the Forward.

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