Concord Music Acquires Samuel French in Big Push Into Theater Business
The music industry conglomerate also owns the Rodgers & Hammerstein organization and has a joint publishing-licensing venture with Andrew... Read More →
Poetry: In These New Essays, John McPhee Finds Poetry in the Material at Hand
“The Patch,” his seventh collection, probes landscapes from New Jersey to Alaska and profiles a vast cast of characters,... Read More →
Tracking the Opioid Epidemic Through the Books That Warned Us
In a new column, Prescribed Reading, Abigail Zuger looks at past books that dealt with opioid abuse in order... Read More →
Meng Lang, Poet Who Promoted Dissident Writers, Dies at 57
Mr. Meng co-founded the Independent Chinese PEN Center, a nonprofit organization formed in 2011 to promote freedom of expression... Read More →
Fred Greenstein, Who Studied Leadership Styles of Presidents, Dies at 88
He identified six qualities to evaluate success or failure in the Oval Office, the most important being emotional intelligence.... Read More →
Church Leaders Accuse Princeton of Keeping Looted Manuscripts
In a lawsuit, officials of the Eastern Orthodox Church say the university has four manuscripts that were looted from... Read More →
Nonfiction: In a (Prose) Tribute to Fathers and Father Figures, a Fast-Paced Poet Slows Down
Terrance Hayes’s hybrid nonfiction book “To Float in the Space Between” pays homage to the poet Etheridge Knight, with... Read More →
William Blum, U.S. Policy Critic Cited by bin Laden, Dies at 85
He railed in relative obscurity against what he viewed as United States imperialism, until he received an unexpected endorsement... Read More →