145 stories by "Helen Epstein"
Oliver Sacks' On the Move is an absorbing, idiosyncratic, often moving memoir.
Antonio Tacucchi's fluid style moves easily from realism to surrealism, banal conversation to poetic free association, reportage to allusion.
The Man Between offers a fascinating glimpse of the late master translator Michael Henry Heim, its reportedly modest and reticent protagonist.
If you're looking for an entertaining piece of theater that will leave you both laughing and pondering your own place on the political map, go see
Walking through the Barnes is like nothing I had ever experienced before, overwhelming and brain-scrambling.
Spending the better part of two days inside the Barnes Foundation was a transformative experience that changed the way I look at art.
Whether or not you're familiar with Elizabeth Bishop or Robert Lowell, their worlds or their poetry, you should hasten to this show.
Ibsen's and Miller's scientist hero must contend with denial, disbelief, ignorance, fear of change, malice, opportunism, greed, the abuse of power, censorship, betrayal, and violence. Sound …
The Witch-Hunt Narrative is an extremely important book about an ongoing phenomenon that will not go away anytime soon.
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Lucinda Franks's writing can be brilliant, deeply honest, and startling; other times superficial, sentimental, New Agey, or simply not credible.
It occurred to me that, given the variety of the Metropolitan Opera's current problems, maybe General Manager Peter Gelb should consider putting this best of all possible Candides on his men…
Mark St. Germain's romantic comedy is never less than provocative, fresh, and unexpectedly moving.
Chester Theatre Company productions often remind me of concerts in a chamber music series that feature musicians who have worked together for long periods of time.
June Moon is a piece of satirical fluff with 27 characters, lots of piano playing, and a half-dozen memorable lines.
YUP's uneven Jewish Lives offers a series of short, accessible biographies that could become a significant literary mural, showcasing the scope of Jewish culture.
Working on a Special Day is an unusual show in every way, and I was thrilled to have had the opportunity to see it.
Artist/scholar Elizabeth Lennard has managed to evoke the breadth of Edith Wharton's life and work in a relatively short and vivid film.
"The Other Place" examines the devastating effects of an illness that is becoming far too relevant to our lives.
The engaging and multi-talented performer Ibrahim Miari has written an insightful and funny one-man show that draws on his own life as an Arab born in what is now the Israeli city of Akko.
Motti Lerner's characters succeed in making both the secular and ultra-religious life appear rewarding and believable.
Daniel Jones is a beguiling writer, with a wonderfully irreverent way of addressing one of life's most serious sources of joy and disappointment.
I don't share Rebecca Mead's awe for "Middlemarch," but I share her enthusiasm for stretching the envelope of memoir.
There will be readers who appreciate Daniel Menaker's brevity and lack of emotional engagement, but for me, much of "My Mistake" reads like notes for a memoir.
So is the book worth reading? Depends how interested you are in twentieth century cultural history, in music and creative genius, in marriage and sexuality.
Stoneham Theatre's atmospheric staging of Jeffrey Hatcher's version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is a production well worth seeing -- it lives up to its billing as "a new look at a horror cl…
