Don Quixote

Mariela Castro and the Future

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Cuban Revolution, Raul Castro, Don Quixote, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Mariela Castro, Future of Cuba, World News

She is the daughter of the man who inherited the presidency of my country through blood, that same country where my father years ago lost his profession as a train engineer.

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Prokofiev's Grandson's Techno-Scored Ballet

Carla Escoda | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Val Caniparoli, Don Quixote, Ma Cong, Smuin Ballet, Michael Smuin, San Francisco Ballet, Symphony of Psalms, Through Ballet, Swipe Ballet, Culture News

In a particularly affecting moment, Susan Roemer, held in a tight clinch by Jonathan Dummar, dove head first toward the floor from the height of a lift, her body inscribing a circle in the air in slow motion as she descended.

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Will Someone Spare Anna Hazare a Copy of Don Quixote by Cervantes?

Sreedhar Pillai | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Don Quixote, Anna Hazare, Lokpal, Political Corruption, Corruption in Indian, Indian Politics, World News

Like Don Quixote, Anna and his team, in their wild dreams pick on anything they can which don't retaliate, to blame for the epidemic of corruption in India while the real causes and reasons lie elsewhere and beyond the combined intelligence of the whole team.

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Man of La Mancha at Musical Theatre West

James Scarborough | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Mitch Leigh, Don Quixote, Dale Wasserman, Nick Degruccio, Musical Theatre West, The Man of La Mancha, Joe Darion, Lesli Margherita, Davis Gaines, Justin Robertson, Richard Gould, Slidepollajax, Arts News

And if Hallmark and 1-800-FLOWERS aren't your cup of tea, then Musical Theatre West's fantastic production of La Mancha, directed by Nick Degruccio, certainly is.

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10 Awesome Made-Up Literary Couples

| Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Book News, Literary Couples, Don Quixote, Literary Dates, Jane Eyre, Book Couples, Fictional Couples, Fiction Couples, Holden Caulfield, Books News

By Amanda Nelson for BookRiot: Miss Liberty Hardy’s hilarious post “Literary Missed Connections” got me thinking about how my favorite litera...

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Reading Iconic Novels Later in Life: Worth the Wait?

Dave Astor | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Classic Novels, Classic Literature, East of Eden, Classic Books, Don Quixote, All Quiet Remarque, Best Classic Books, Books News

As a teen and young adult, I managed to polish off some famous books. But, for various reasons, other renowned novels remained tantalizingly in my future.

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Ballet Points to U.S.-Cuba: Friendship Is Not an "Impossible Dream!"

Noel Irwin Hentschel | Posted 09.01.2011

Read More: Ballet, Cuban Ballet, Don Quixote, Cuban Travel Restrictions, Cuba Embargo, Cuban Americans, Cuba, Arts News

While critics reviewed Don Quixote, I considered the bigger picture of what the significance of this Cuban ballet touring the United States at this particular time in history means for the people of Cuba and of America.

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Cubans Cruise Into L.A. With Classic Don Quixote

Debra Levine | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Don Quixote Ballet, Don Quixote Cuba Ballet, Don Quixote, Ballet Nacional De Cuba, Cuban National Ballet, Arts News

Our Cuban brothers and sisters cruised into the Los Angeles Music Center last night with their charmingly ramshackle Don Quixote, a vehicle purring on high-octane Russian ballet technique that's been passed through generations.

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Why We Read 'Don Quixote'

theparisreview.org | Jonathan Gharraie | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Don Quixote, William T. Wiley, Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, Quixotic, Spanish Institute, Edith Grossman Translation, Edith Grossman, Don Quixote De La Mancha, Books News

What does it mean to be quixotic today? Are street-corner preachers quixotic? Is Bono? What about film directors who dementedly pursue the unlikely gr...

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Doubt Is The Faith That Binds Us Together

Jon M. Sweeney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Graham Greene, Monsignor Quixote, Doubt and Faith, Agnostic Catholic, Don Quixote, Uncertainty, Religious Beliefs, Doubt, Agnosticism, Belief in God, Religious Tolerance, Religion News

It is increasingly clear to me that doubt is, in fact, the most important faith of all. Doubt invigorates faith, demands more of it, and causes us to ask more of each other.

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Movie Review: The Next Three Days

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don Quixote, Liam Neeson, Paul Haggis, The Next Three Days, Russell Crowe, Brian Dennehy, Pittsburgh, The Next Three Days Movie Review, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, Movie Reviews, Daniel Stern, Elizabeth Banks, Trudy Styler, In the Valley of Elah, Crash, Entertainment News

Paul Haggis is fascinated with choices and dilemmas. He builds movies out of the idea that none of us know how we'll react when put in a stressful, da...

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Toe Shoes in the Night

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Ballet Theater, Don Quixote, Cuba, Cuban National Ballet, World News

On the stage is a figure in toe shoes and a tutu, one of the principle dancers of the American Ballet Theater which is visiting Havana. The audience applauds to delirium for a dance troupe that hasn't been in Cuba for 50 years.

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Our Knight In Shining Armor

Richard C. Morais | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Cervantes, Vladimir Nabokov, Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, Thomas Mann, Books News

Don Quixote most crucially, is about the eternal struggle between those who believe in the power of the imagination, versus those who believe that looking harsh reality straight in the face is the only true way to live a life.

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13 Books Nobody's Read But Says They Have (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Don Quixote, Books, Charles Dickens, David Foster Wallace, Leo Tolstoy, Herman Melville, Infinite Jest, Famous Books, Chaucer, Bestsellers, James Joyce, Lying About Books, Proust, Slidepollajax, Salman Rushdie, Books News

Books are a funny thing. For hundreds of years, reading has been considered one of the highest forms of enlightenment. Because of the meaning and valu...

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"War and Peace" Doesn't Have To Be Hard

Salon | Laura Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don Quixote, Tolstoy, The Magic Mountain, Books, Audiobooks, Summer Reading, War and Peace, Reading, Thomas Mann, Books News

Many people swear that, come summer, they'll finally get around to reading a classic work of literature they missed during their student years; "War a...

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Translator Speaks Up For Translations

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don Quixote, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ghost Writers, Translators, Why Translation Matters, Writing, Books, Translations, Edith Grossman, Books News

NEW YORK — If you're a fan of Gabriel Garcia Marquez or have purchased the latest edition of "Don Quixote," you might know the name Edith Grossm...

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Google Isn't (Necessarily) Making Us Stupid

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Yoga, Plato, Don Quixote, Twitter, Gutenberg, Betty White, Xbox, PlayStation 3, Facebook, Alex Ross, Barack Obama, Ipad, Iphone, Nicholas Carr, Youtube, Meditation, Socrates, Snl, Buddhism, Huffington Post, Shakespeare, Media News

My own meditation practice -- which facilitates clarity and focus -- has benefited incalculably from Buddhist and other spiritual websites, blogs, lectures, readings, videos and guided meditations.

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Are You Trying Too Hard?

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011

When we face challenges, most achievers and slackers alike, fail to ask for help. Too often, we go off into the sunset like the Lone Ranger, and forget all about Tonto.

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You Can Fight City Hall

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sony Reader, Don Quixote, Health Care Reform, Blue Shield, Whittier, Richard Nixon, Politics News

The massive corporatization and mind-boggling technological advances of the past couple of decades have produced a vast network of forces that thwart reasonable inquiries and protests.

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The Best Unpopular Books Of The Decade

The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011

While people are busy ranking the hit books of the last 10 years, many a publishing insider is quietly mourning a volume that unaccountably never made...

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Guantanamo Detainees' Most Requested Books From Prison Library: Harry Potter, Don Quixote, And Obama's Dreams From My Father

juancole.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Don Quixote, Dreams From My Father, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Juan Cole, Besan Sheikh, Guantanamo Reading List, Harry Potter, Taliban, Politics News

Journalist Besan Sheikh recently visited the Guantanamo Bay prison facility run by the US, where al-Qaeda and other prisoners from Bush's 'war on terr...

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Ted Kennedy Was the Man of La Mancha

James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Broadway, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Don Quixote, Edward Kennedy, Camelot, Ted Kennedy, Entertainment News

John F. Kennedy was America's King Arthur, then Teddy was its Don Quixote, a man that spent much of his political career following his own impossible dream -- health care for all.

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John Quixote

Adam Blickstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don Quixote, John McCain, John Quixote, Politics News

The perception of reality in John Quixote's head is very different from what is actually happening. He thrives on deceiving others through self-deception hoping that in the end, everyone becomes a fool.

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