Two men, lovers, are sparring in a hexagonal ring: advance and retreat, circle and feint, posture and jab. The more nattily dressed one (Ian C…
Megan Grumbling
About
Megan writes about theater, books, and film, and is reviews editor of "The Café Review". Her poetry collection "Booker's Point" was awarded the 2017 Maine Book Award and the Vassar Miller Prize.
When Jewish-American photojournalist Jamie (Brooke Parks) meets a shoeless Syrian boy on the island of Lesvos, she feels compelled to shelter …
Charlie (Burke Brimmer) is a shut-in, weighs 600 pounds, and is dying. His one friend, Liz (Amanda Eaton), a nurse, enables his obesity even a…
As the scion of the 14th wealthiest family in America, Eliot Rosewater (David Surkin) gives out checks to opera companies, scholars, and poets…
In Ashley Bryan’s beloved and award-winning storybook Beautiful Blackbird, the one black-feathered bird in the forest is the envy of all the o…
Young college student Mira (Kerry Anderson) is lately restless, neurotic, prone to weeping. She feels as if she’s forgotten something crucial.…
Upon discovering the neighbor’s dog killed with a garden fork — and finding himself named lead suspect — fifteen-year-old Christopher begins a…
It’s an appalling irony that among the myriad travesties committed against First Nations people, some of the most egregious and systematic wer…
An entire language goes extinct every few weeks, laments George (Mark Rubin), a linguist, who finds this the saddest fact in the world. He’s m…