Books According to a definition cited by Ariel Gore, editor of this LGBT-themed story collection, the word “queer” means “unusually different.” Different from what? From you. Unless ...   More

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24-year-old Ali Sethi's sprawling debut, The Wish Maker—a family saga about growing up in Pakistan—made this year's list of Vogue's top ten summer books. Check it out    More

Books For American readers, Pakistan is both dazzling and unfamiliar—a land of cosmopolitan lady diplomats and hard-headed generals, sophisticated poets and orthodox imams, rickshaws and Palm Pilots, ...   More

News “These aren’t your gramma’s storm windows.” Bjorn Nelson holds up a wicked-looking window casing. Sourced from Germany, it features triple thermal glass panes, three rubber gas ...   More

Books Writing about Dickens, George Orwell mused, “He is all fragments, all details—rotten architecture, but wonderful gargoyles.” Aleksandar Hemon’s new collection of short stories, ...   More

Performance We have it anecdotally that on the morning after Rigoletto’s premiere, theatergoers sang “La Donna e Mobile” in the streets of Venice. You may not think you know that canzone, but yo ...   More

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So you thought Monteverdi was the only Baroque Venetian who's getting any play these days? You thought wrong. In the wake of several prestigious revivals in the UK and Europe, Portland Opera has decided to stage Francesco Cavalli's La Calisto, an edgy show, and Cavalli's ...   More

News Portland Opera's production of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw borrows Hollywood scare tactics from horror classics like The Shining, The Exorcist, and The Children of the Corn—elements like cloak-and-dagger chiaroscuro l...   More

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Each week, WW writer John Minervini brings you the latest in book reviews, author Q&A's and Portland literary gossip. Check wweek.com in coming days for the second half of Tome Raider's two-part review of Toni Morrison's new novel, A Mercy (Knopf, 167 pages,...   More