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… The Drama: Can It Be Taught The Drama has of late years become, I will not say popular, for it was always that, but a … dubious compliment. We feel we are being put in a somewhat false position. For after all the actor and the playwright … are spoken, the actions taken. True, the drama may be studied in books, but not so well. A month of seeing the great …

… a young man out of the literary gate before most of his competitors had made it to the track. Not only did Roth … veterans were so ticked off by the goldbricking Jewish soldier in “Defender of the Faith” that they tried to get the … as he is not Nathan Zuckerman, but there are nonetheless points of similarity: both are launching pads that allow …

… Useless, the altogether appropriate title given to the journals Werner Herzog kept while making his most famous film in … most books. As in one of Herzog’s slow-moving films, life comes across as a dark, viscous current through which people … settle for pulling a model ship over a ridge in the San Diego botanical gardens. Herzog was having none of it and …

… the pens of the refugees from Mussolini’s realm, there now comes forth a comparable output from the typewriters of the “former … the normal Hitler: at moments of climax it emerges and conceals him beneath its more than life-size puppet figure.” This …

… and study birds than any other class of (nonhuman) animals. This prompts the question, why? Apparently the answer … that of reptiles or mammals, yet not huge enough to baffle comprehension, as the profusion of insect forms does for … study any animals other than human beings? In popular medieval writings about the lower animals these were sometimes …