Marilyn Monroe is the American public’s white whale, that which we seek to dominate and claim as our own.
Tag: Herman Melville
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We’re all in the same boat (alone) with Moby Dick and How Do We Navigate Space?
Two streaming shows from Theatre in the Dark and Strawdog capture the drama of obsession and isolation.
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Chicago Opera Theater’s Moby-Dick is well worth chasing down
It’ll banish all your memories of English-class torture.
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Leave the flatlands behind in Savanna and Galena, along the bluffs of the mighty Mississippi
Head west for quaint townships and lush landscapes.
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There’s madness ahoy in Lookingglass’s Moby Dick
David Catlin’s dazzling aerial-acrobatic production returns.
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Lookingglass Theatre moves Moby-Dick from sea to sky
Lookingglass Theatre’s dazzling new staging of Moby-Dick uses aerial acrobatics to buoy Melville’s masterpiece.
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Shattered Globe Theatre’s The Whaleship Essex pulls a Melville
Shattered Globe Theatre’s The Whaleship Essex is bestilled, if not dead, in the water.
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This week in Claire Denis: Talking to the Nightingale’s Christy LeMaster about Nenette et Boni and Beau Travail
The second in a series of discussions about the renowned French filmmaker with Chicago-based female critics, artists, and academics
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Concerning those movies that exist only in spectators’ imaginations
Imagining a nonexistent movie classic starring Peter Sellers
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When turkeys take flight
Sometimes, one generation’s turkey is the next generation’s feast
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The romance of books: the Newberry Library at 125
A special exhibit displays some of the exquisite items in the Newberry’s vast collection, on the occasion of the library’s 125th anniversary
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A memory of the smoking car
Remembering Amtrak’s amenities for smokers, which ended in 2004
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Calling Motherfucking Bullmotherfucking Shit on “the Pynchonian Realm of Highbrow Slapstick,” Motherfuckers.
The Atlantic gets a little too fucking precious when it tries placing @MayorEmanuel in a broader literary context.