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Faulkner Link to Plantation Diary Discovered

The climactic moment in William Faulkner’s 1942 novel “Go Down, Moses” comes when Isaac McCaslin finally decides to open his grandfather’s leather farm ledgers with their “scarred and cracked backs” and “yellowed pages scrawled in fading ink” — proof of his family’s slave-owning past. Now, what appears to be the document on which... Read more of this review

The Proust Questionnaire – Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders teaches at the Graham School and is Professor of Comparative Literature at Illinois State University.  Her teaching and research interests include world literatures, literary and cultural theory, continental philosophy, trauma and modernity, and transitional justice and human rights. In Winter 2010 she taught a Graham School course... Read more of this review

Descartes Meditations Letter Found

The letter, dated May 27, 1641, concerns the publication of “Meditations on First Philosophy,” a celebrated work whose use of reason and scientific methods helped to ignite a revolution in thought. The document, experts say, reveals just how much Descartes tailored his writings to answer his contemporary critics. Frequently suspected of heresy,... Read more of this review

Theater review – The Tempest in New York

Sam Mendes has directed a starkly designed, concentrated production of “The Tempest.” As you take your seat at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater, where the Bridge Project production of “The Tempest” opened Thursday night, you can spy Stephen Dillane, the lanky British actor who plays Prospero, sitting quietly among the... Read more of this review

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, A Musical Play

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, A Musical Play, we see Jane Austen as she revisits her rejected first novel, First Impressions, and overcomes all obstacles to transform it into her masterpiece, Pride & Prejudice.... Read more of this review

Happy 50th birthday, Rocky and Bullwinkle

(CNN) — Fifty years ago, Jay Ward’s animated moose and squirrel duo, “Rocky & Bullwinkle,” debuted on ABC, forever changing the way the world looked at animated television. In one episode, Rocky and Bullwinkle are propelled to the moon when their oven explodes while the pair are following Bullwinkle’s grandmother’s... Read more of this review

Jane Austen aficionados

Here is a fresh photo of Elisabeth Lenckos delivering the February 14th Works of the Mind lecture, “Spirits Dancing in Private Rapture”: Jane Austen and the Philosophies of Love. Remember: all three episodes of Emma are available for online viewing through Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Northanger Abbey (Encore Presentation) was shown on PBS February... Read more of this review

Movies of interest: The Last Station

Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren have been nominated for Academy Awards for their performances as Sofya and Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station, which premiered at the 2009 Telluride Film Festival. This Sony Pictures Classics release is now playing in Chicago. He was the celebrated author of War and Peace, but the last years of Leo Tolstoy’s... Read more of this review

Basic Program Weekend Study Retreats

Here is information on the upcoming Basic Program Weekend Study Retreats. Spring 2010 TITLE: Machiavelli’s The Prince DATES: April 30-May 2, 2010 Members of A Red Orchid Theater will perform Machiavelli’s comedy The Mandrake. Autumn 2010 TITLE: Love & Persuasion in Plato DATES: Oct 22-24, 2010 The Weekend Study Retreat will focus on... Read more of this review

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