Most great writers have a knack for bringing their characters to life. But only Ngugi wa Thiong’o could write a character so convincing he almost gets arrested. In 1986, while the author’s native ...
E. Y. “Yip" Harburg was an artist of extraordinary personal courage and compassion. The man who brought the “Rainbow" to both Finian and “The Wizard of Oz," Harburg was quoted as saying, “The lyricist ...
THE world is in danger of being too acutely discovered. Pretty soon there won’t be any Nowhere. There will be a road-map through it for every tooting motor, a cloud-map through it for every wheeling ...