From Our Pages: “Prix Fixe–the table next to yours,” by Thomas E. Kennedy.
Strangers share Christmas dinner in a Copenhagen restaurant. “You hope you don’t look too much like a lonely old guy … There are good astri over this night, and the ruby is the most powerful gem in the universe.” Thomas E. Kennedy is an American expat who has lived in Copenhagen for more than thirty...
Holiday Reading: “Dancing in Their Heads,” on The Nutcracker and the production of girlhood. By Gregory Weatherford.
Chances are that the next weeks will bring a bit of Nutcracker into your life. We offer some perspective with Gregory Weatherford’s article about a troupe of ballerinas on the cusp of womanhood, competing for roles in the famous ballet about the hard-jawed hero. By Greg Weatherford. Most of the ballerinas are girls between the ages of...
