Books
Ishmael Reed Picks Hamilton Apart, Bit by Revisionist Bit
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda deconstructs the Broadway play’s abolitionist portrayal of the founding father with incisive, impeccably-researched satire.
Hamilton
Art
The Pandemic’s Invisible Agent
Thin as one-thousandth the width of an eyelash, the malign virus appears to us in magnified images as a round glob of genetic material surrounded by a beady shell. The so-called crowns (corona in Latin) on its surface are its means of destruction.
In Brief
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hamilton Collaborators Save Drama Book Shop From Closing
A recent rent increase had imperiled the century-old bookshop in the New York Theatre District , which has fostered countless award-winning playwrights and composers — like Miranda himself.
Performance
Hip-Hop, ‘Hamilton,' and the Deficit of Diversity on Broadway
Broadway in 2015 still has a major deficit of diversity.