Women become invisible after a certain age, the bitter joke goes, the only variation being which decade marks our disappearance. But Kate Walbert not only sees vanishing women — a pair of widows in ...

Women become invisible after a certain age, the bitter joke goes, the only variation being which decade marks our disappearance. But Kate Walbert not only sees vanishing women — a pair of widows in ...

In 2009, Kate Walbert published "A Short History of Women," a complex novel that swirls around several generations of one family to explore what it meant and means to be female in the modern age. "The ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The desire to make something new and step outside the limitations of conventional ...

Next summer, New York Theatre Barn and the Fire Island Pines Arts Project will join forces for the 4th annual season of Barn on Fire. The summer residency on Fire Island will make space for two ...

Kate Walbert’s fourth novel, “The Sunken Cathedral,” makes a music that is dissonant, haunting, vibrant, moving and wise. It may be her best work yet, and may spark you to go find all her prior books.

My aunt told me recently that she loves the way my father, her brother, gives directions. “We have all the same points of reference, most of them no longer standing,” she said. “He might say, ‘Turn ...

My first attempt at reading The Sunken Cathedral was a bust — after 25 pages, I fell asleep and awoke in the middle of the night, too tired to do anything but watch television and let the ...