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  • A scene from Act I of Adès' "The Exterminating Angel."
    A scene from Act I of Adès' "The Exterminating Angel."
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    ‘The Exterminating Angel’ at the Met

    The British composer Thomas Adès, the son of Syrian-Jewish immigrants to the United Kingdom, leads an operatic adaption of Luis Buñuel’s surrealist film into a biblical trap

    byDavid P. Goldman
  • Reunion in postwar Paris: Jan Kott, Maryna Zagórska, Jerzy Zagórski (Catholic poet and translator), and Lidia Kott. During the war, Jan Kott and the Zagórskis were members of the Polish underground. (Courtesy of Michael Kott)
    Reunion in postwar Paris: Jan Kott, Maryna Zagórska, Jerzy Zagórski (Catholic poet and translator), and Lidia Kott. During the war, Jan Kott and the Zagórskis were members of the Polish underground. (Courtesy of Michael Kott)
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    Jan Kott Would Have Loved ‘Waiting for Godot’ in Yiddish. No, He Didn’t Speak Yiddish.

    I was reminded of the Polish critic and Shakespeare scholar at the New Yiddish Rep’s production of Beckett’s masterpiece

    byFrances Brent
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    Avigdor Arikha’s Art of Pain

    The skilled Israeli painter, a Holocaust survivor who died in 2010, has a major gallery show in New York. Plus: an interview with his daughter.

    byJonathan Wilson
  • Rosset (R) with Samuel Beckett.(Bob Adelman/NYT)
    Rosset (R) with Samuel Beckett.(Bob Adelman/NYT)
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    Lady Literature’s Lover

    Shivah Stars

    byMarc Tracy
  • Imre Kertész in Berlin, Germany, 2002. (Photo: Nina Ruecker/Getty Images)
    Imre Kertész in Berlin, Germany, 2002. (Photo: Nina Ruecker/Getty Images)
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    Tried and True

    In his 1988 novel Fiasco, Hungarian Nobel laureate Imre Kertész, who died today at age 86, imagines an author exhausted by the Holocaust yet unable to write about anything else

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Self portrait in Striped Shirt, 2001(© The Estate of Avigdor Arikha, courtesy Marlborough Gallery, New York)
    Self portrait in Striped Shirt, 2001(© The Estate of Avigdor Arikha, courtesy Marlborough Gallery, New York)
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    Force of Nature

    The artist Avigdor Arikha, who died in 2010, lived—and painted—with gusto

    byDaphne Merkin
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    (Justin Gabbard)
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    Hey, Jew, Don’t Make It Bad

    Does telling children they’re hated make them mishear lyrics and, eventually, horde Viagra?

    byShalom Auslander
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    Bring the Noise

    The brilliantly aggravating music and art of Mauricio Kagel

    byChris Dumas
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