Forgive the needlessly provocative title. Suzan-Lori Parks' Brechtian play with music — set in a "small town in a small country in the middle of nowhere," where abortion has been outlawed and its practitioners are branded with an A — is a powerful and original fable, in which social protest is leavened with irony.
Epic times call for epic art, and nothing moved us more than The Return of the King. Other things we loved: Louis Vuitton, William Boyd and BBC's The Office And to the Atlanta group OutKast, we say "Stank you very much!"