George Blecher
I’ll Never Forget … Billie Holiday, June 15, 1957
The night the music came alive at the Loew’s Sheridan Theatre, New York City By George Blecher The main event: Billie Holiday topping the...
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George Blecher
- Aug 24
- 4 min
The Hand-Model
by George Blecher A woman my father claimed was a famous hand-model lived down the street in a faux-Tudor house too big for one person. I...
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George Blecher
- Jun 13
- 15 min
The City as Desire
A child of the boroughs ventures forth in midcentury Manhattan By George Blecher Photos by Angelo Rizzuto. Library of Congress, Prints &...
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George Blecher
- Feb 19
- 6 min
The old man scores some points
George Blecher February 16 2023 The faith in American unanimity that Joe Biden expressed in this year’s State of the Union speech sounded...
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George Blecher
- Dec 27, 2022
- 5 min
Our Book Reviews are Back. Part 1: Fiction
We start with four novels, telling tales—and tales within tales. Because…isn’t reality overrated? The Swedish writer Lina Wolff wears her...
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George Blecher
- Nov 15, 2022
- 7 min
It could have been worse
George Blecher 14 November 2022 The red tide never surged but the re-election of numerous brazen careerists and hardline crazies is bad...
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George Blecher
- Oct 31, 2022
- 6 min
Leopoldstadt on Broadway: A Review
Tom Stoppard’s highly anticipated take on the tragedy of Austro-German Jews is only occasionally riveting By George Blecher 1899: Two...
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- Jul 30, 2022
- 10 min
The Promiscuous Gardener
Riffing on the sly and guileful beauty of roses By George Blecher The author, no doubt about to get thorn-scratched as he tends the...
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- Apr 29, 2022
- 6 min
A Misbegotten Macbeth Descends on Broadway
The knives are out in this scathing review of the Sam Gold production starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga By George Blecher APRIL 28,...
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- Mar 14, 2022
- 7 min
In the shadow of Putin, Trump and a divided America
Amidst bipartisan solidarity with Ukraine, Joe Biden’s State of the Union address focused on unity and reconciliation. But in reality,...
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- Feb 2, 2022
- 5 min
Boy Wonder at Mid-Career
Paul Thomas Anderson’s rollicking, serious, endearing Licorice Pizza is well worth a trip to a movie theater. It’s an eccentric take on...
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- Dec 4, 2021
- 6 min
The Lehman Trilogy—A Probing Critique
Super-professional acting, glossy production—but do they make a full theatrical meal? Is this play any more than an inflated biopic? By...
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- Dec 4, 2021
- 13 min
Guilty Pleasures in Covid Time
Want to be enticed by movies again? These offerings from this year’s 59th Lincoln Center Film Festival will do it By George Blecher Table...
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- Nov 19, 2020
- 7 min
Fragments from a broken mirror
Pessimists fear that the Trump phenomenon has not so much derailed American democracy as revealed long-standing problems in the system...
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- Nov 2, 2020
- 7 min
A shining city on a hill. What if anything can American values teach a free Belarus?
The United States may not be the best model for a fledgling democracy looking for fresh values. America’s values have never been as pure...
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- Jul 22, 2020
- 3 min
Stunned City
After three months away from New York, my first impression was that someone had hit it in the stomach with a baseball bat. The city...
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- May 20, 2020
- 5 min
I Left My Troubled City Behind. Now I Feel Guilty.
My adult son, worried about my health, urged me to flee. But New York doesn’t let go easily. I didn’t want to leave the city. If the...
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- Apr 22, 2020
- 7 min
The Confused States of America
The first month of the pandemic in the US The Trump administration’s failing response to COVID-19 has prompted governors and mayors to...
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- Apr 20, 2020
- 14 min
Ghosts on the Landing
Selected as a Notable Essay of 2020 in Best American Essays of 2021, edited by Kathryn Schultz and Robert Atwan. The following is an...
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- Apr 2, 2020
- 3 min
The Virus-Man
A guy who says he's the virus-man keeps up with me no matter how fast I run. That's weird because he's sickly-looking, needs a shave, has...
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