Folky fingerpicking and new-agey thoughts about self-help make “Deeper Well” one of the gentlest but firmest rebuffs imaginable. After musing on astrology and negative energy, Kacey Musgraves notes, “I’m saying goodbye to the people I feel/are real good at wasting my time.” In the next verses, she leaves behind marijuana
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Maggie Siff Stars in a Rare Revival of Williams’s ‘Orpheus Descending’
After Maggie Siff’s husband died of brain cancer in 2021, the last thing she wanted to do was a play about a woman with a husband dying of cancer. But then, after initially pondering whether to commit to the show in 2019, she reread the script — and reconsidered her
‘Maggie Moore(s)’ Review: Body Trouble
“Some of this actually happened,” we are advised at the beginning of John Slattery’s second feature, “Maggie Moore(s).” At least it’s a variation on the groaningly familiar “based on a true story,” even if both claims are equally meaningless. Degree of truth aside, this comedy-thriller succeeds as neither. Top-heavy with
Did Alex Murdaugh Kill His Wife Maggie and Son Paul? Updates on Double-Murder Trial
Former lawyer Alex Murdaugh is on trial for the double murder of his wife, Margret “Maggie” Murdaugh, and son Paul Murdaugh, who died on June 7, 2021. Alex’s trial began on January 23, 2023. The public received more information on the case after the February 22, 2023, release of the
Maggie Nelson Exposes Freedom’s Paradoxes
Precisely because the context of art is complex, historically developing and contested, what she has to say can’t be reduced to a few rules or a simple formula. Invoking the category of “art,” she cautions, shouldn’t serve as an all-purpose alibi for awfulness. Yet she’s persuasive when she writes that