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The Happy Ending Music and Reading series has formed a partnership with the arts colony Yaddo located in Saratoga Springs, New York, to pres...
The Asia Society inaugurated its new Asian Arts & Ideas series this month with “The ‘Chindia’ Dialogues,” a three-day forum that examined th...
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In honor of its 50th birthday, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) brought together company founder Sir Peter Hall and current Artistic Dire...
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China watchers and writers Ian Buruma, Yan Lianke, Linda Polman, David Rieff, and Zha Jianying spoke at the PEN World Voices Festival of Int...
One of the most powerful aspects of “ War Horse ,” which opened at Lincoln Center on April 14, is, of course, the astonishing puppets. Minut...
It’s a good thing that William Shakespeare was born in the spring—April 26—because his sonnets are crammed with sumptuous images of ripe nat...
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On Thursday, a conversation about censorship, art and morality took place at the New School's Arnold Hall between two American authors and a...
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Anticipation was high at the Story Prize event at The New School's Tishman Auditorium last week. The three Story Prize finalists—Anthony Doe...
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English writer Zadie Smith has accomplished so much in the past 11 years. Her first novel, White Teeth , was published in 2000 before she ev...
"World leaders need to answer to artists." This was the rallying cry of Natalia Kaliada, artistic director of the Belarus Free Theatre , at...
At last month's True Story: Non-Fiction at KGB Bar, famed essayist, journalist and critic Vivian Gornick talked about womanhood, working and...
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In the latest episode of KGB's non-fiction reading series, Dan Charnas read from his forthcoming book "The Big Payback: The History of the B...
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This year’s New Yorker Festival featured a panel on gay marriage--an appropriate topic given this month's onslaught of gay hate crimes, suic...
In the latest episode of KGB's non-fiction reading series, Moustafa Bayoumi read from his book, " How Does it Feel to be a Problem?: Being Y...
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On Sunday, a line of rain-sopped literary types wrapped around the block to hear British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie speak to Indian poet...