The non-award of the Wendy Wasserstein Prize … and the non-award of the Nobel...
What would Wendy do? The non-award this year of the Theatre Development Fund’s Wendy Wasserstein Prize for young women playwrights — the TDF considered no one up to snuff — has caused a great...
View ArticleRemembering Bella Akhmadulina: “purity, conscience, and independence”
I ran across Robin Varghese‘s recent post on 3 Quarks Daily noting that, he, too, had somehow missed the obituaries for the 73-year-old Russian poet Bella Akhmadulina, who died on November 29 of a...
View ArticleNew poems, old stories: Robert Conquest balances “the inhuman reign of the...
Conquest at work (Photo: L.A. Cicero) When Christopher Hitchens died this month, I thought immediately of Robert Conquest and his wife, Elizabeth, who were close friends of the renowned journalist and...
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