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Allen Ginsberg Was The Voice Of The Beats. Now, Hear His Voice Online.
Stanford Libraries have been on an Allen Ginsberg roll. After digitizing Ginsberg’s manuscripts of his iconic poem “Howl” earlier this summer, Open Culture reports that Stanford has added a substantial archive of audio recordings related to Ginsberg’s career to their online offerings. The materials include recordings of Ginsberg leading college lectures and workshops, like his…
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Film & TV 3 Brothers Survived The Holocaust In A Cave. Can They Survive Revisiting It?
“Shalom Italia” is not your typical Holocaust movie. The documentary, which airs July 24 as part of the POV series on PBS, is as much a fascinating family drama and rumination on memory as it is about surviving the war. Emmanuel, Andrea, and Bubi Anati, brothers born to an extended, respected and prosperous family in…
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These Artists Called For A Boycott Of An Israeli Play. Here’s Why They’re Wrong.
On Monday, July 24, a stage adaptation of David Grossman’s novel “To the End of the Land” will make its United States premiere. But a number of prominent American theater artists wish it wouldn’t. Their numbers include the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights Lynn Nottage, Annie Baker, Bruce Norris, and Tracy Letts, as well as the directors…
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Remembering Diana Trilling, Overlooked ‘Lioness’ Of American Literature
Diana Trilling, born on this day in 1905, had a complicated relationship to the world of American literature and letters. As a book critic and essayist, writing first for The Nation and then for publications including Harper’s and The New Yorker, Trilling was widely respected — Martin Amis, remembering his first meeting with her, called…
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Tony Kushner Is Writing A Play About ‘Very Boring’ Donald Trump
Donald Trump, when he was elected president, likely didn’t expect that he would come to dominate America’s theater scene. Yet between the Public Theater’s headline-making representation of a Trump-like despot-in-the-making in “Julius Caesar,” playwright Robert Schenkkan’s imagination of a Trump-created dystopia in “Building the Wall,” and the rushed import of a British stage adaptation of…
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Ohad Naharin, Batsheva Dance Company Artistic Director, Is Stepping Down
Ohad Naharin, the longtime artistic director of Tel Aviv’s Batsheva Dance Company, will step down from his post in September 2018. As The New York Times reports, Naharin will be replaced in his position by Gili Navot, a former dancer and rehearsal director with the company. Naharin will stay on as Batsheva’s house choreographer. Naharin…
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WATCH: Daniel Barenboim Makes Plea For European Unity
Daniel Barenboim, the famed and famously political pianist and conductor, delivered a moving call for European unity while conducting a BBC Proms concert by the Orchestra Staatskapelle Berlin on Sunday. “I think that the main problem today is not the policies of this country and that country and this and that,” he said to an…
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The Secret Jewish History Of Jane Austen
A Janeite is a Jane Austen fan. Quite possibly a Jane Austen fanatic. Austen, who was born on December 16, 1775 and died two hundred years ago on July 18, 1817 was the author of six beloved novels. She has such a devoted following these days that she is more than a novelist: She is…
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200 Years After Jane Austen’s Death, How Has She Influenced Jews?
Jane Austen, the well-loved British novelist who died 200 years ago today, mentioned Jews in only one of her novels. (That would be “Northanger Abbey,” in which the heroine shuts down a suitor’s casual anti-Semitism in a sequence of giggle-inducing awkwardness; points for Austen.) But the author has inspired Jews since her work first went…
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Jewish Creator Of ‘Doctor Who’ Suggested Female Star — In 1986
Who, exactly, is Doctor Who? It’s simple, really: An apparently immortal alien who can time travel, likes to get into trouble, get out of it with the use of his sonic screwdriver (don’t ask), and, ideally, fight for the rights and wellbeing of the oppressed along the way. Oh, yes, and every time the Doctor…
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How Magnum Reinvented, Redefined and Revolutionized Photography
Ever since the camera became a pervasive technology we have lived in a world of images, a world in which we make sense of events through their representations – the image is more immediate than the written word and more mutually intelligible than sound (though we see the camera as the primary means of recording and…
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