Back Draft: Rebecca Donner
November 2, 2021
The author discusses her family's connection to the Nazi resistance in Germany and writing through historical gaps.
Tana Wojczuk
The Vanity of Crowds
August 16, 2016
Shakespeare warned against treating democracy as a popularity contest.
The Riddle of Trevor Nunn’s Pericles
March 30, 2016
Is Shakespeare Dead?: A production of Shakespeare’s Pericles offers both promise and frustration.
Shakespeare on the Frontier
February 11, 2016
Is Shakespeare Dead?: A cultural inferiority complex leads to a quirky vision of the Bard.
The Good Wife–Hillary Clinton as Lady Macbeth
January 19, 2016
Along with First Lady, Senator, and Secretary of State, there’s one other title she just can’t seem to be rid of.
Eric Drooker and Molly Crabapple: Street Art and the New Bohemian
July 16, 2012
The two visual artists on the gravitas needed to make protest art, the rhetoric and representations of the Occupy movement, and how to seduce an audience by grabbing them by the eyeballs.
Michael Sandel: What Money Can’t Buy
May 1, 2012
Michael Sandel on a society where everything could be up for sale.
John Guare: Strangers in the Dark
March 19, 2012
American Playwright John Guare on Tennessee Williams, writing strong dialog, and discovering a New Orleans lost in history.
Fukushima’s Nuclear Disaster Foretold In 1976
March 9, 2012
The origins of the problems at Fukushima are far older and far more sinister.