Out and About: Sondheim Hates New ‘Porgy and Bess’; Barenboim for Nobel Prize?
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Ezra Glinter August 11, 2011
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Mother Jones profiles Yemen Blues. Read our take on the band here.
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Morris Dickstein appreciates the all-too-overlooked Delmore Schwartz.
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Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim is being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Stephen Sondheim doesn’t much like the revamped version of “Porgy and Bess.”
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Danielle Berrin provides a comprehensive take on today’s Jewish actresses.
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Charlotte Gray, the French resistance hero who was later played by Cate Blanchett, has died at 98.
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A fight is brewing in Romania over the dictionary definition of an anti-Semitic slur.
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Joe Lieberman has a new book coming out about Shabbat.
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