The Other Condition: Robert Musil on Theater

THEATER SYMPTOMS: Plays and Writings on Drama is the mother lode for Robert Musil aficionados, a vital piece of the author’s canon. Containing the major play The Utopians, other dramatic material and fragments, and Musil’s theater criticism, much of it translated into English for the first time, this anthology shows Musil to be a writer […] The post The Other Condition: Robert Musil on Theater appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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A Robert Kirkman Surprise: A New Walking Dead Story

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