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Jonas is the subject of two revelatory exhibitions now on view in New York—along with the MoMA retrospective (through July 6), the Drawing Center is presenting a survey of works on paper, “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral,” through June 2. When I try to get an overview of Jonas’s work, I often consider the title of a work of hers from 1973: Glass Puzzle. I saw a version of this piece in her 2018 retrospective at London’s Tate Modern—Glass Puzzle II, which is dated 1974/2000 and incorporate...

Shaking the Tree Theatre's latest production, The Boy and the Bird, adapts a short story by Alissa Nutting, which was based on the Brothers Grimm's "The Juniper Tree" into a tight 60-minute spring season play filled with tension, suspense, and stray rays of humor.  Fairy tale adaptions are only as good as the people adapting them, but Shaking the Tree has boiled the bones of "The Boy and the Bird" into a visual feast. I disliked shadowplay before I saw Shaking th...

Joan Jonas's MoMA retrospective reveals the enduring influence of Japanese culture on her work.

A new exhibit from artist Jennifer Morgan has taken over the Mount Pearl Annex and lets people step into a macabre fairy tale.

In the strange, beguiling novels of mid-century writer Barbara Comyns, girls levitate and ducks swim through drawing rooms, while her own colourful life included a friendship with spy Kim Philby, and her talents were championed by Graham Greene. Might a new biography finally secure her place in the literary canon, asks Jessie Thompson

In the 19th century, miners removed pinyon pines and juniper trees to make charcoal. Repeating that past mistake doesn't bode well for climate change.

The Canadian author explores her sister’s schizophrenia and the loss of her mother in a compelling trilogy of essays

Get a first look at the cover for Ava Reid's Lady Macbeth and hear from the author herself about her feminist Shakespearean retelling.

The award-winning author of The Friend and The Vulnerables on Claire Keegan, Fat Ham, and the Book That Has the Best Opening Line.

Kate DiCamillo is the bestselling children's author of "The Tale of Despereaux," "Because of Winn-Dixie," "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" and more.