In an online art exhibit, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center explores the lives of individuals who have visas to work in the United States. Read the article for background and click “H-1B” in the first paragraph to access the artwork.
Actors have long avoided saying the title of Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy inside theaters in fear of the famed “curse of Macbeth.” What’s the evidence for such a curse, though?
Action-adventure heroes aren’t only men. Early films starred many women in action roles, even performing daring feats in ankle-length skirts! Learn about the tales told in their films.
Film critic Richard Brody reviews a new biopic about poet Emily Dickisnson, who was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, and lived most of her life there.
Almost from the beginning of film, there have been movies made to frighten viewers. Learn about and watch some classics of the genre.
Writer and cartoonist James Thurber was once the most popular humorist in America. To reach that peak, the author of “The Macbeth Murder Mystery” had to overcome considerable hardship.
In the early 1960s, a young filmmaker named Michael Apted worked on a television documentary about how a group of seven-year-olds from different classes viewed their lives. “7 Up” was followed by “14 Up,” “21 Up,” and so on, checking in with the same group of subjects every seven years. Apted’s extraordinary look at ordinary lives continues with “56 Up.”
The theme of class can be reflected in photographs as well as prose. Compare Twain’s story with the 1920 King George V incident.
The Royal Shakespeare Company will use sophisticated technology to re-tell The Tempest in an exciting new way in a late 2016 production.
Dartmouth College professor Colleen Glenney Boggs discusses the impact of literature on the Civil War.
