Wojciech Jagielski was in town for the PEN World Voices Festival in New York City and to promote Night Wanderers, his most recent book in English. The book tells the story of the journalist’s experiences in Uganda...

The PEN World Voices Festival, held in New York City every year, brings together writers from all over the world to converse about their own and others’ work. The acronym stands for Poets, Essayists and Novelists,...

Telluride, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, New York: there’s nothing like leaving a movie theater in one of these cities and walking out into the streets, which is just to say that part of what makes a great film...

It seems like a particularly American folly to mistake poverty for pigsty, which is, regrettably, what happens in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Look Back in Anger, under...

In March of 1933, German Jewish architect Erich Mendelsohn fled Berlin, having been stripped of his membership in the Architects’ Union and foreseeing even graver consequences from...

There is a scene in Pina, film director Wim Wenders’ new 3D film, when a line of nimble dancers, dressed in evening clothes and assembled in what could pass for a high-school...

Had you popped your head into the Highline Ballroom in New York City at various points throughout the evening on January 9th, and not read the fine print, you’d probably have assumed...

Where do online chat rooms, virtual reality, Schubert, Goethe, Shakespeare and the Japanese recluse phenomenon of hikikomori come together to rub shoulders? If you’ve seen Polish director Jan Komasa’s new film,...

Even in the rarefied world of art-house cinema, a 90-minute film taking place entirely inside of a 16th Century painting might seem a bit esoteric. But Lech Majewski, director of The Mill...

After four long days in Rome, my feet began to drag. There was a tingling in my left arm, the sun seared my neck, and the relentless trickle of water from the fountains was carving a...