CANNES, France, May 24, 2025 — China’s first poem-opera, The Hegemon’s Farewell: Xiang Yu and His Beauty Yu , after its ...

William Logan on new volumes and editions by Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Brad Leithauser, Dorothy Parker & Claudia Emerson ...

A former Peace Corps volunteer who worked in Liberia reflects on the lessons she took with her in a lifetime of diplomatic ...

Yiyun Li’s memoir, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” stuns with its lucidity and with the nightmarish facts that prompted its writing. As Li explains, “My husband and I had two children and lost them ...

When the legendary Jaime Laredo stepped down as music director, the VSO initiated a search that yielded seven finalists (two ...

Palestinian writer adapts his satire Application 39 for a new stage production including future fiction and his own family's ...

A champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag, Whitman announces in the first pages of Specimen ...

Folger Theatre has revealed its 2025-26 season at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill, featuring three productions ...

Pride in past valor may be best expressed in the St. Crispin’s Day speech from “Henry V” (Act IV, Scene iii), delivered by the young king on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt.

He was best known for “The Sorrow and the Pity,” a landmark film that debunked ideas of vast French resistance to the Nazi ...

Ophuls was also behind the influential docs 'Hotel Terminus,' 'A Sense of Loss,' 'The Memory of Justice' and 'Veillees ...

Famed documentarian Marcel Ophuls has died at age 97. One of the leading filmmakers to capture the political atrocities of ...