Rushdie Cancels Festival Appearance Due To Threats
JAIPUR, India (Associated Press) -- Booker-Prize winning author Salman Rushdie canceled plans to appear at an Indian literature festival Friday after ...
JAIPUR, India (Associated Press) -- Booker-Prize winning author Salman Rushdie canceled plans to appear at an Indian literature festival Friday after ...
Victoria Lautman | Posted 03.13.2012
To describe the Jaipur Literature Festival as the rambunctious love-spawn of the mercantile-minded Frankfurt Book Fair and free-spirited Woodstock barely scratches the surface of this spectacle.
Posted 06.13.2011
The hardest part is to keep going, and every writer knows it. The best have left their words of wisdom to help the rest of us plod along. We loved the...
Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011
Behold the brilliance of Tom Stoppard! His genius is reason enough to see the Broadway revival of Arcadia at the Barrymore, a civilizing relief ably d...
Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011
ARCADIA *** 1/2 out of **** ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATRE What a marvelous play! That's my first reaction after seeing the new revival of Tom Stoppard's Ar...
Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011
Blending pop-culture references -- from The Wild One to Shakespeare to Freudian therapy -- playwright David Davalos sets his dynamic comedy in 1517 Germany.
Lily Bevan | Posted 05.25.2011
Where better to joke about the tumultuous nature of literature than on a plaque the size of a puddle on the approach to one of the most important libraries in the world.
Ashley Wren Collins | Posted 05.25.2011
"I don't think revolution ever happens on big Broadway stages. So our responsibility is to create extraordinary events in small rooms that infect the rest of the culture," Anne Bogart insists.
Lauren Gunderson | Posted 05.25.2011
Science is built for the stage. The very act of scientific discovery is one of the most dramatic in the human experience. Dramatic because it changes everything.
David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011
The Demons is something to experience for anyone who loves to be immersed in theater -- this immersion offered with four 15-minute intermissions and two meal breaks.
BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard has spoken of his fear that the "printed page" is being lost in a "world of technology"....
Susan Moeller | Posted 05.25.2011
This year already, 19 individuals have been killed around the world because of their work as journalists. We need to recognize the essential role journalists play in keeping us informed and in protecting our freedoms.
Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011
A photograph of me circa 1977 hangs over my desk. It was taken by Toni Beatty, an American photographer I met when we shared adjoining villas and a g...
Spencer Green | Posted 05.25.2011
Hannah: Staring at these grazing ungulates, I question my own identity. Are they better off masticating the dew-flecked herbage below them, unaware of the charnelhouse that awaits?
AP | By PRAKASH BHANDARI | Posted 01.23.2012