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Bookworm
Gary Shteyngart: Lake Success Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success is about a hedge-fund manager billionaire who has lost track of what he once cared about and loved.
Opening the Curtain
Breaking free from Shakespeare's Ghetto What if “The Merchant of Venice” were told from Shylock’s daughter’s perspective? That’s the conceit behind Sarah Mantell’s play “Everything that never happened”.
Art Talk
Artists as Cultural and Political Provocateurs Edward Goldman talks about the shredded “masterpiece” by Banksy – is it a scandal or smart performance?
Design and Architecture
Scooter wars, gifting houses, puppets on the move What we learned about the future of mobility at our “Flipping the Bird” design jam at IndieCade this past weekend. Buy a condo in a Bjarke Ingels-designed tower, gift a house to a slum dweller? A Vancouver group applies the TOMS Shoes one-to-one gifting model -- to houses. And the Bob Baker Marionette Theater has been dazzling people with hand-made puppets for 55 years. Will it keep the magic as it leaves its home?