A Play That Confronts the Horror of Solitary Confinement
On a recent Thursday evening, a small crowd gathered in a sweaty upstairs room in a Lutheran church in Bed Stuy for "Mariposa and the Saint," a short play composed entirely from the text of …
On a recent Thursday evening, a small crowd gathered in a sweaty upstairs room in a Lutheran church in Bed Stuy for "Mariposa and the Saint," a short play composed entirely from the text of …
"They're calling it an archive," Tom Wolfe points out. "It makes me feel very important." Wolfe is standing next to an exhibit of his papers at the New York Public Library. In 2013, the libr…
Oscar Hijuelos, the first Hispanic author to win the Pulitzer Prize, has died at the age of sixty-two. Nathaniel Popkin on Oscar Wilde’s little-known journalistic career and his campai…