Arts & Culture | 3.1.2009
Playwright Christopher Durang, a “native American absurdist,” writes black comedies that turn painful events into hilarity.
| 3.1.2009
Star shooting guard Jeremy Lin excels in nearly every phase of basketball.
In Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery, Glenda Carpio describes how slavery has provided a background and a source of raw material for African-American humor.
| 1.1.2009
Art historian Robin Kelsey examines photographs of all kinds to reveal what they say about human history, society, and culture.
| 11.1.2008
Fabric artist Linda Liu Behar stitches embroideries atop her own photographs.
Craig Lambert profiles the poet Richard Wilbur.
| 9.1.2008
In “The Three Little Pigs,” the big, bad wolf huffs and puffs and easily blows down the first piglet’s straw house.
Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind...
| 5.1.2008
Screenwriter turned novelist Eric Lerner ’71 finds his voice...
| 3.1.2008
For a long time, Patricia Marx ’75 assumed she “would wake up in the suburbs with three kids and a mother hairdo.” It...
The charmingly small, civilly quiet T.W. Food, in the Huron Village area of Cambridge, seems to have arrived in the right place at the right...
The hamlet of Alkali Lake, about 100 miles north of Vancouver, is home to one of a handful of surviving Shuswap bands of Native Americans in...
