Arts Apr 16 Conversation: Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction, Paul Harding This year's Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction was not a bestseller or a blockbuster. Its author was not a big name, and its publisher, too -- a small imprint called Bellevue Literary Press, run out of the NYU Medical School…
Arts Apr 16 ‘Doctor Who’ Regenerates for a New Season On Saturday, a new era begins for the BBC's beloved science-fiction series, "Doctor Who," the quirky and mysterious hero who time travels in a spaceship disguised as a blue police box, exploring strange worlds and occasionally saving the universe.
Arts Apr 02 Conversation: Alfred Molina Plays Painter Mark Rothko in ‘Red’ In "Red", a new drama by John Logan, abstract artist Mark Rothko speaks his mind about art and life and battles with a young assistant as the two prepares a commission of blood-colored murals. Veteran actor Alfred Molina (acclaimed most…
Arts Mar 26 Conversation: Open Letter’s Translated Works Find a Ready Audience Open Letter Books, a small press operating out of the University of Rochester in New York, is trying to offer those readers a head start. Unlike some large publishing houses that occasionally release translated works, Open Letter only publishes works…
Politics Jan 28 State of the Union: The Morning After Response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address varied widely across the media and political spectrums. (We've compiled several after the jump.) You can see your own here and here, the analysis of Mark Shields and…
Arts Dec 18 Will ‘Avatar’ Take-off at the Box Office? Opening Friday nationwide is James Cameron’s latest epic cinematic and technical feat. “Avatar,” a digital 3-D action adventure movie about human colonization of a distant moon already occupied by a race of blue aliens. Costing nearly $400 million for production…