From a Leftist perspective, Aijaz Ahmad succinctly concluded, “Khomeini’s takeover was one of those rare conjunctures in which the revolution and the counter-revolution were condensed in the same ...

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Julia Ioffe left the Soviet Union in 1990 at age seven, when her family immigrated to the United States. In her newly ...

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I hate when critics remember a past show and compare it to a current revival. When I saw Merman, or Channing, or Gielgud. But…When I saw the premiere of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, A Gay ...