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November 6, 2023
At an unprecedented rate, loneliness is moving around the globe—from self-isolating technology and political division to community decay and social fragmentation—and yet it...
October 25, 2023
We mourn the death of Louise Glück—poet, recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University—with a look back at...
October 18, 2023
Modern thought begins in doubt. René Descartes decided to doubt everything, even his own existence, before he hit bedrock: If doubting is going on, there must be a doubter....
October 4, 2023
Emily Skillings is a recipient of the 2023 New York Foundation for the Arts for a poetry fellowship. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced the recipients and...
August 8, 2023
Adrienne Kennedy has been a force on the American stage since the premiere of her groundbreaking, Obie Award–winning Funnyhouse of a Negro in 1964. Her haunting and powerful...
Sinéad O’Connor
August 1, 2023
For years, O’Connor had been raising an alarm about pedophile priests exploiting children with impunity while an enabling Vatican hierarchy looked the other way.
June 28, 2023
Rattlestick Theater has selected playwright  a.k. payne (YC, 2019) as one of its 2023-24 Van Lier New Voices Fellows. Funded by the New York Community Trust and the Jerome...