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When, two years ago, Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian poet, led a literature seminar at the university in Gaza, among the topics ...

Direct-address, an old playwriting technique, has been retooled by a new crop of playwrights (Bess Wohl, Jordan Tannahill, ...

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The key to the classic holiday tale – an actual Christmas carol — is right there in the name, and yet almost everyone ...