Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day, shortlisted for the Booker Prize back in 1980, draws elements from the author’s own life. A three-time Booker finalist, Desai weaves the book with such subtlety that ...

Marie C. Miczan, 87, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Jan. 21. Her obituary called her “an avid reader and champion of ...

Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare — Sly & Robbie, also known as “The Riddim Twins” — played on reggae classics by Black ...

Co-director of the animated Disney hit The Lion King who also worked on The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast ...

In our weekly On This Week feature, we take a look back at what was making the headlines in 1980, as well as a picture from ...

The moon landing! Royal weddings! Janet Jackson’s $550,000 nipple! As television turns 100, we charts its journey from terrifyingly dangerous to the thing that unites us ...

Making a film is hard, making a good film harder still. But to craft something so spectacularly awful that it ascends to ...

Patty devoted herself to many community services - reading to children with polio at Mary Hitchcock hospital, volunteering at ...

Folger Theatre’s fourth annual Reading Room Festival returns with a four-day festival of staged readings, panel discussions, workshops, and community celebrations. Join artists, critics, scholars, and ...

Celebrate new voices, ideas, and works in Asian American theater at Theater Mu's free play-reading festival. On Jan 23 & 24, join us for a 10-Minute Playfest ft. nationally submitted scripts that ...

As it prepares for a final bow before relocating to Boulder, Colorado, Sundance alumni recount how America’s most ...

The reissue of "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains" reclaims the film as a precursor to riot grrrl ...