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

By Ezra Glinter August 11, 2011

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.

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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.

Ezra Glinter is the critic-at-large of the Forward.

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