George Blecher
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
- 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
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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
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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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- Feb 2, 2022
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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
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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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- 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 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 1, 2020
- 65 min
Angst in the Time of Corona
JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR: DAY 1 3/15/20 Starting Journal of the Plague Year on the Ides of March. Hmm. Today's stats: USA infected...
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- Aug 3, 2018
- 13 min
Murder, Politics and Architecture: The Making of Madison Square Park
LATELY, MADISON SQUARE PARK has provided a staging area for provocative art installations, pop-up food courts and outdoor work spaces....
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- Aug 15, 2013
- 5 min
Bound to a Place, Despite Life’s Thorns
I owned the cottage right from the beginning. Or it owned me. For one thing, it was so old. Later we found it on maps dating back to the...
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- May 7, 2013
- 7 min
David Foster Wallace: Innocence and Experience
He pointed a way for American fiction out of the doldrums of postmodernism, writes George Blecher. For a culture troubled by the...
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- May 24, 2011
- 7 min
Whispering on Paper
Email, text messaging and social networks have revolutionized the way we communicate. Yet as the magic of instantaneity fades, George...
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- Jun 7, 2010
- 12 min
Where People Walk a Mile for a Chuckle
Tough materialism and existential frankness, an awareness of one’s mortality balanced by the refusal to talk bullshit: George Blecher...
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- May 22, 2007
- 7 min
Dirty Secrets of a Translator
No translator can translate equally well. A lot gets lost in translation. Some languages don’t translate well. These are just some of the...
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- Oct 10, 2005
- 4 min
The Hidden Face of America’s Poor
At first you don’t notice them. They’re so skinny that in a crowd of three or more at a street corner or in a mall, they disappear. When...
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- Feb 2, 2005
- 5 min
Healthier in Lungs, Poorer in Spirit
Eating in a Manhattan midtown restaurant the other night, I happened to glance over at the bar area. People were perched on bar stools,...
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- Mar 20, 2004
- 10 min
The Leisure Class and I
George Blecher discusses the timeliness of Thorstein Veblen’s “Theory of the Leisure Class” and traces his own lust for the...
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