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More Right-Wing Anti-Female Tripe
The author wants to return women to the home, to force them into unpaid volunteer work for want of other opportunities, and to get them pregnant.
Read More »The Language Of War
There are very few examples of language used in today's vocabulary that would serve as a reminder of tranquility.
Read More »Theater Review: Shiloh Rules by Doris Baizley
An April night's fever dream of the beasts and angels of war.
Read More »New York Notes: Irish and Gay, City’s #2 Official Sits Out St. Patrick’s Day Parade
An openly gay, Irish-American boycotts the Saint Patrick's Day Parade after civic leader compares gays to Nazis.
Read More »Theater Review: The Leningrad Siege at Wilton’s Music Hall
"The menopause is irreversible, just like history," Priscilla proclaims. But is that true?
Read More »This Is Progress?
We've just become far more sophisticated in our choice of clubs. The grunting hasn't changed much at all.
Read More »DVD Review: The Port Of Last Resort
There was no denying that Shanghai was unlike anything, any of them had experienced before.
Read More »Book Review: Female Caligula: Ranavalona – The Mad Queen of Madagascar by Keith Laidler
Ranavalona reigned from 1828 to 1861, dying peacefully in her bed of old age, having kept her country independent.
Read More »Theater Review: The RSC’s As You Like It
Lia Williams is entirely up to the challenge of Rosalind.
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