AFF's Doublethink

They don’t do what they’re supposed to do.

Does poo have artistic merit? A viewer watching Dingleberries, a series of 15 comic sketches set in a bathroom, may well ask that question. The play, produced by Washington’s Cherry Red Theater Company, is a grab bag: One of the sketches is downright gross, another presents an hilarious parody of Edgar Alan Poe’s “The Raven,” [...]

< p>Readers will soon have an opportunity to revisit the talking beasts, mythical creatures, and strange realms of C.S. Lewis’s “The Chronicles of Narnia.” Publisher HarperCollins plans to issue a new series, by contemporary authors, that will be set in Lewis’s fictional universe. < p>While the fairytale trappings will remain, however, Lewis’s efforts to infuse [...]