The Nobel Prizes are considered the most prestigious awards in the world, which makes it understandable that the award announcements are always big news,
The turn of the 20th century brought a nearly unprecedented flourishing of Russian culture, the so-called Silver Age. But in recent decades, many of the wooden buildings outside St. Petersburg where this culture thrived have been lost to vandalism and neglect.
This fascinating book doesn’t advance just one argument, nor is it uniform in its methods or style. Instead, its eight chapters take fresh and varied approaches to problems old and new issues of history, politics, culture, and conscience.
PBS debuts 'The Adventures of Saul Bellow,' first wide-release documentary on the Jewish Nobelist, filmed by Israeli director Asaf Galay and featuring Philip Roth's final interview