Peter Wood

A review of Jonathan Leaf's Pushkin: A Life Played Out. Continue Reading »

Artifacts and images of the Civil War touch something deep in the American soul. Continue Reading »

Artemisia: Light and Shadow, a one-act, one-person play at the Flea Theater in Tribeca, portrays the life of the seventeenth-century Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Continue Reading »

Ruben Östlund's film The Square questions the assumption that art should aspire to be “cutting-edge.” Continue Reading »

The Fight is a tight, vivid, and compelling play depicting how the two doyennes of American feminism—Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem—faced off. Continue Reading »

If Only…A Love Story is a new play by Thomas Klingenstein, now playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. Continue Reading »

What Does Bowdoin Teach? That’s the title of the 360-page report that my colleague Michael Toscano and I published on April 3. Coincidence gave us a nice round number of pages, but it was indeed our plan to compass Bowdoin College. We set out to create something new: a full 360-degree picture of a liberal arts education … Continue Reading »