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Tony Judt: An Intellectual Journey 
The New York Review of Books
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Rene Burri/Magnum Photo Train arriving to Paris from Switzerland near Near Gare de l'Est, 1950 When I met Tony Judt twenty years ago, he was on his way to catch a train.
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The Q&A: Eliza Griswold, author
The Economist
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THOUGH history tells us that Islam and Christianity were both borne out of a small sliver of the middle east, the world's largest population of Muslims today is in Indonesia.
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Anthony Lane: “Soul Kitchen” and “Centurion.”
The New Yorker
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Food movies are an acquired taste. I have lost count of all the lip-smackers, the heart-warmers, and the spicy-noodle-slurpers, not to mention such molar-wrecking fables as
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I Wanna Publish Zines: A New Book On Touch And Go Shines A Spotlight On A Forgotten Era
Alternative Press Magazine
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In the late ’70s, a strange breed of fast, loud and snotty punk bands from the United Kingdommade waves strong enough to traverse the entire Atlantic Ocean.
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Jenny Lewis Is Tired of Being in a Band
Vanity Fair
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Jenny Lewis has spent the last 10 years fronting successful indie-pop band Rilo Kiley, yet after four albums and countless tours with the L.A.based quartet, she was restless and
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Theater Review | 'Troilus and Cressida': The Cynical Side of Shakespeare, but With a River View
New York Times
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From left, Matt Amendt, Eleanor Handley and Sam Dash in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's staging of “Troilus and Cressida,” which closes on Saturday.
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Merle Haggard Reflects On His Outlaw Country Past
National Public Radio
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"There's no one in contemporary popular music who has created a more impressive legacy or one that spans a wider variety of styles than Merle Haggard," music critic Peter
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GOOD NEIGHBORS (2009)
The New Yorker
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Walter and Patty Berglund were the young pioneers of Ramsey Hillthe first college grads to buy a house on Barrier Street since the old heart of St.
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An Emmy for the first sitcom character with Asperger's: The Big Bang Theory's Sheldon Cooper.
Slate Magazine
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Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons on The Big Bang TheoryThe 2010 Emmy for lead actor in a comedy went to Jim Parsons, who plays Dr.
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MyWire Knowledge
Ballet in American Theatre
Oxford Companion: American Theatre
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Ballet has been a feature of regular American theatre, as distinguished from a totally separate ballet theatre with great ballet companies, virtually from the start.
Pierre Taisan de l'estoile
Oxford Dict of the Renaissance
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(1546 -- 1611 ), French chronicler. He was born in Paris and studied law in Bourges.
Laodomya
Oxford Companion to Chaucer
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the wife of Protesilaus ( Protheslaus ), a Thessalian prince who was the first to leap ashore in the attack on Troy, but was instantly killed.
letzte Held von Marienburg, Der
Oxford Companion to German Lit
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a tragedy by J. von Eichendorff , published in 1830 . It is written in the main in blank verse, but some scenes in the first three acts are in prose.
Élie Stephenson
Oxford Companion to French Lit
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(b. 1944 ). Economist and teacher who composes poetry, drama, and songs in French and in the Creole of French Guiana.
James Robertson Planché
Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
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(1796 -- 1880 ), English playwright and antiquarian, who became Somerset Herald (1866 ).
