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Neeli Cherkovski's expanded edition of his biography of Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a book by “a poet who set out to celebrate another poet.”

The Fisher Center at Bard will present a bold, gender-reframed, era-transcending vision of Molière’s 1665 tragicomedy Dom Juan, conceived and directed by Ashley Tata, with a new translation from NYU Professor of ​​French Literature  and theater scholar Sylvaine Guyot and Fisher Center Artistic Director Gideon Lester.

An illustrious student-teacher double act is full of rewards; the Castalians illuminate in works spanning Beethoven to Adès; and two operas on BBC TV

She was a flamboyant, nervous, eccentric and perhaps insane woman whom T.S. Eliot separated from after 17 years of a wasteland of a marriage.

Steven Carroll re-imagines a different path for the life of Vivienne Eliot in Goodnight Vivienne, Goodnight.

John Weir's short story collection 'Your Nostalgia is Killing Me' is made of linked stories that span a 40-year period, illustrating the power of nostalgia to alternately bring us to tears and make us laugh with a familiarity.

As a tourist from the mid-1970s to the 1990s, John Guillaumier used to be fascinated by the sights of Malta. Here he shares some photos and anecdotes of hi

Theatre Royal Stratford East today announces Nimmo Ismail and Eva Sampson as their new Sky Arts Artistic Associates. Both take up the role on 1 April 2022.

A drama is being played out in these lines, and I suspect that Eliot is thinking of another text as he recasts the latter’s drama in his own terms. The text is the Bhagavad Gita, which I had read at the age of 17 or 18 in Juan Mascaró’s translation but forgotten by the time I met Gay Clifford. The Gita’s paradoxical thesis about “detached action”—a kind of work that is undertaken for its own sake.

Bhagavad Gita the “first book of yoga” has inspired everyone from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Ram Dass to contemporary yoga teachers.