Among the winners of this year's Pulitzer
Prizes, which recognizes the best of journalism
and the arts, included investigative reporter
and host Connie Walker, Okanese First Nation
(Cree) and the Gimlet Media team won for
audio journalism.
Tom Stoppard, Peter Cozzens and the ways that history weighs on the present. I recently had the opportunity to see Tom Stoppard’s thinly fictionalized family history, Leopoldstadt, the story of the rise and fall of a wealthy, cultured, cosmopolitan Viennese family of Jewish descent from 1899 to 1955. The Czech-born playwright, now 85, traces the extended family’s history through a series of harrowing events, including the loss of a son at Verdun, cancer, deaths at Auschwitz and Dachau and in the Blitz, and ultimately a postwar suicide.