The Wisdom of Oscar Hammerstein II: A Conversation with Laurie Winer
Joy Horowitz speaks with Laurie Winer about her book “Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical.”
Joy Horowitz speaks with Laurie Winer about her book “Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical.”
This fictional evocation of the 1950s Red Scare is warm, angry, and laugh-aloud funny.
Laurel Leff discusses her new book about how American universities responded to the Holocaust.
A poignant, revealing memoir by the daughter of Leonard Bernstein.
The tale of a love affair between a reporter and a tree.
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David Gessner gives us some hope, even as he provides a renewed understanding of the true vulnerability of the American West.
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A PRINT VERSION of this interview can be found here. Author JILL LEPORE talks about her latest book on Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, Jane...
Jill Lepore: “I wanted to tell Jane Franklin’s story as a way to ask readers to think about how history gets written: what gets saved and what gets...
IN SARA LAWRENCE-LIGHTFOOT'S office at Harvard, the color purple is everywhere. The lavender rug and desk chair and the giant amethyst stone on her...