Pamela Newton

Pam Newton writes for magazines as an art/culture journalist and essayist. Publications include the Huffington Post, the New York Times Magazine, Time Out New York, O the Oprah Magazine, American Theatre, Entertainment Weekly, and others. She has taught literature and writing to high school and college students for many years, including two years teaching abroad in Germany, and has a particular interest in the teaching of writing and in pedagogy more broadly. Some past courses have focused on expository writing, non-fiction essay writing, dramatic literature, city life, American literature, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. 

Selected Publications

- “The Balancing Act of ‘The Bedwetter,’” American Theatre

- “Sometimes You Want to Go” on Killing the Buddha

- “What is Anthony Trollope Good For?” on The National Book Review

- Author page on Medium

- “At the Well” on Wanderlust

-“Watching the Mothership Sail” on TueNight

- “The Generative Generation,” American Theatre

- Blogger Page on The Huffington Post

- “On the Lookout for the Past,” The New York Times Magazine

- “Ivo van Hove is Having a Moment,” American Theatre

- “Stew Pays a Debt to James Baldwin,” American Theatre

- “The Broadway Season Was Diverse Off-Stage Too,” American Theatre

- “Hoboken: The Gothamite’s Gateway to the Garden State,” hMag

- “Shards of Beckett,” The Brooklyn Rail

Book Reviews for O the Oprah Magazine (samples):

- Dear Life by Alice Munro

- Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub

- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Theater Reviews for Time Out New York (samples):

- Freud’s Last Session

- Inner Voices

- Hard Times

- Lascivious Something

- Mountain Jews

- A Perfect Future

- Sounding

Courses

Undergraduate: Travelers and Tourists (Writing Seminar); Reading and Writing the Modern Essay; The Modern Metropolis (Writing Seminar); English 121: Writing About Cities