Out and About: Sondheim Hates New 'Porgy and Bess'; Barenboim for Nobel Prize?

Mother Jones profiles Yemen Blues. Read our take on the band here.

Morris Dickstein appreciates the all-too-overlooked Delmore Schwartz.

Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim is being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Stephen Sondheim doesn’t much like the revamped version of “Porgy and Bess.”

Danielle Berrin provides a comprehensive take on today’s Jewish actresses.

Charlotte Gray, the French resistance hero who was later played by Cate Blanchett, has died at 98.

A fight is brewing in Romania over the dictionary definition of an anti-Semitic slur.

Joe Lieberman has a new book coming out about Shabbat.