Ali Allawi, author of The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace, appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Wednesday to dicuss his recent and much anticipated book. Allawi and his book have received extensive attention in the print media and now, prompted by Wednesday’s TV interview,
A 24-hr Shakespeare marathon, the first of its kind at Yale Unversity, will be held this weekend at the Old Campus. According to the Yale Daily News, a full reading of all of his 39 plays, 5 narrative poems and 154 sonnets will be performed and read on campus. A
The first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Eugene O’Neill has grown steadily more popular with audiences and critics alike in the decades since his death in 1953. This month, Kevin Spacey and Eve Best star in a new Broadway production of A Moon for the Misbegotten,
Anthropologist Mary Douglas’ controversial study of patterns in ancient world literature, Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition was featured in an article in yesterday’s New York Times. Douglas explains that many famous ancient texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely neglected due to the literary style
This weekend’s New York Times Book Review devoted the “TBR: Inside the List” column to discussing The Yale Book of Quotations, specifically the relative dearth of quotations from recent literature. Dwight Garner says, “A lot’s been written already – most of it deservedly positive – about the new ‘Yale Book
Yesterday “The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950” opened at the Los Angeles County Musuem of Art. This is the first exhibition to explore in depth the development of modernism in the American West. Although this movement has traditionally been associated with the East Coast, pioneering artists such as Ansel Adams
Edmund White reviewed Tennessee Williams’ Notebooks in this weekend’s New York Times Book Review, which tracks Williams’ growth as a writer from his undergraduate years to his early successes of “The Glass Menagerie” and “A Streetcar Named Desire” to his troubled descent into alcohol and drug addiction. Although continually plagued
Tennessee Williams’s later life often proved mysterious to his colleagues and critics; he was infamous for being erratic, and was lambasted by critics who longed for his earlier days. His Notebooks, recently published for the first time in an annotated edition by the Yale University Press, offer insight into the