On Sunday: Bechdel's mom, Theroux's Africa and Mantel's Cromwell Los Angeles Times A Comic Drama," Ulin says that anyone who hasn't read “Fun House” should “drop everything and get a copy right away.” “Fun House” is on his short list along with “Maus,” “Persepolis,” “American Splendor” and "very few others of the greatest works of ... |
 New York Times | Since the Opening Curtain, a Question: Is Willy Loman Jewish? New York Times As most of the audience recognized from the name alone, the show was a translation of Arthur Miller's drama “Death of a Salesman.” It seemed a mere footnote to the premiere production, which had completed its triumphal run on Broadway several months ... |
 Gay Star News | Cate Blanchett to star in lesbian drama Carol Gay Star News It was previously common in literature for any homosexual character to die, convert, or to live in misery by the end. Film producer Elizabeth Karlsen said: 'It's a heartbreaking, wonderful story that has you on the edge of your seat. |
 NOLA.com | 'The Raven' movie review: John Cusack the best thing about literary drama NOLA.com As well as being one of the great dark geniuses of American literature, a singular talent who created a nightmare world of hidden desires, consumptive brides, loathsome putrescence and endless melancholy. So it was with some trepidation that I entered ... |
Up Close and Personal: Glenn Close '65 Visits Campus at Invitation of Students The Choate News By Zoe Dobuler '13, Arts & Leisure Editor On Wednesday, May 2, Glenn Close, six-time Oscar nominee and member of the Rosemary Hall class of 1965, visited campus at the invitation of Ms. Katharine Jewett's Comparative Literature class. |
 Arts and Collections International | Landscapes of Literature Arts and Collections International How does our literary experience of places affect our real experiences and vice versa? What motivates Goths to visit Whitby? Jamie Andrews, Head of English and Drama at the British Library said: “These rare and unique collections will help give a ... British Library explores UK landscape over millennium British Library explores UK landscape |
A look at books - Irish fiction and non-fiction literature to get your teeth in to IrishCentral Casey is a particularly acute reader of human behavior, and there is more than a hint of the psychological depth of the classic crime drama Prime Suspect at work in this tense and twisted tale. By Anakana Schofield Well, this is a particularly lively ... |
 The Kazan Herald | Mayakovsky's Ghost in Kazan The Kazan Herald Today, as in most former Soviet towns, one can walk along countless avenues dedicated to literary giants of the past, and recall the likes of Tukay, Pushkin, and Gorky. But, even though he has a street named after him, there remains an individual who ... |
How UK geography inspired its literature The Asian Age Wild Places, with Charlotte Bronte's manuscript for Jane Eyre and Sylvia Plath's draft of Hardcastle Crags and Ted Hughes' draft of Wuthering Heights, explores wild and dramatic landscapes in English literature. London, which has always inspired ... |
Asia in My Life AllAfrica.com Though under a fictional name, Gamal Pinto, has been immortalized in Peter Nazareth's novel, In a Brown Mantle one of the best literary articulations of the political drama of the transformation of African politics from the colonial to the neo-colonial ... |
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