The National Theatre’s 2018 Tony Award®‒winning Broadway revival of ANGELS IN AMERICA is now an audiobook

Since its premiere in 1991, Angels in America—both Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part Two: Perestroika—has become one of the most important works of American theater and a staple of theater courses across the country. Its portrait of New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis and complex questions of identity, community, justice, and redemption remains

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Celebrating LGBT Pride Month 2019

In June we celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month) which honors the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan. First, President Bill Clinton declared June “Gay & Lesbian Pride Month” on June 2, 2000. In 2009, President Barack Obama declared June Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. LGBTQ Pride Month events attract

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Edmund Morris: 1940 – 2019

We are saddened to share that Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Edmund Morris passed away on May 24, 2019, at the age of seventy-eight. Best known for his trilogy on Theodore Roosevelt and his boundary-pushing biography of Ronald Reagan—the only biography ever authorized by a sitting president—Morris was a singularly skilled writer with the rare talent of

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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale retold through illustrations

Season 3 of The Handmaid’s Tale kicks off on Wednesday, June 05, with Hulu releasing new episodes each week. Hulu has described the new season as being “driven by June’s resistance to the dystopian regime of Gilead and her struggle to strike back against overwhelming odds.” Just in time for the season premiere, Nan A. Talese

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Keeping Students from the Pitfalls of Passion by Brad Stulberg

Dear Educators: A few years ago, when I began to focus more on entrepreneurial pursuits, my mom, a former writer herself, gifted me a little book titled Passion: Every Day. It was filled with inspiring quotes like “I dare you, while there is still time, to have a magnificent obsession” and “follow your desire as long as

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Tony Horwitz: 1958 – 2019

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and bestselling author Tony Horwitz died suddenly on May 27 in Washington, D.C. of an apparent cardiac arrest. He was 60 years old. Tony was a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. As a newspaper reporter he spent a decade overseas,

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CONFERENCE PREVIEW: Association for Psychological Science

The APS Convention brings together more than 4000 scientists from disciplines spanning the full spectrum of psychological science. Those who attend will gain insights into research and trends from world-renowned psychological scientists, a chance to improve a multitude of skills, an opportunity to deepen knowledge, and a space to forge life-long collaborations with colleagues.  

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FROM THE PAGE: There There

There There is a multivoiced novel that features twelve Native American characters of different backgrounds and generations all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American, grappling with a complex and painful history. In an interview with The New Yorker, Tommy Orange explained

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FROM THE PAGE: Washington Black

Washington Black follows “Wash” Black, an eleven-year-old field slave on a sugar plantation in Barbados. When Wash’s old master dies, the plantation’s already dire living conditions immediately worsen. Wash is then selected to become a manservant to his new master’s brother, a man who, as it turns out, is not only an abolitionist, but an inventor,

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FROM THE PAGE: Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity

According to an analysis by the Williams Institute in June 2022, over 1.6 million adults (ages 18 and older) and youth (ages 13 to 17) identify as transgender in the United States. Sociologist Arlene Stein spent a year following the lives of four transgender young adults, capturing their experiences as they transitioned from their assigned gender.

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David Brion Davis: 1927-2019

David Brion Davis, distinguished author and historian, passed away on Sunday, April 14th 2019, at the age of 92. Davis was Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, and founder and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Throughout his career, he wrote and edited sixteen

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THE GOOD LORD BIRD to become a limited series on Showtime

Starring Ethan Hawke as John Brown, this adaptation is based on the novel by James McBride.   Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction   Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist,

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