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The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Homeless Black Mom A few seasons ago, when I saw Suzan-Lori Parks’ The America Play , her extraordinary tragedy of the American Dream, By John Heilpern
Best Stories of the Century? Not Quite, but Close Enough The Best American Short Stories of the Century , selected by John Updike. Houghton Mifflin, 775 pages, $28. Never mind By jhanasobserver
Architecture’s Algorithmic Turn: A.I., Adaptation and the Future at the Venice Biennale By Auronda Scalera and Dr. Alfredo Cramerotti