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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has secured his second consecutive Tony Award. Following last year’s victory in the Best Revival category for his play Appropriate, Jacobs-Jenkins...
Heartiest congratulations to the English Department Prize winners for 2024-2025!
In the opening scene of Spent, billed on its cover as a “comic novel,” Alison Bechdel’s cartoon avatar, also named Alison, has rearranged her sock drawer in an effort to...
Alison Bechdel, the protagonist of “Spent,” is a sellout. She is not exactly the same person as Alison Bechdel, the author of “Spent,” whose previous books include the...