Bruce Bawer (Connoisseur, March 1989) notes that Dana Gioia is ... one of several younger poets--dubbed "The New Formalists"--who are challenging the poetry-world status quo in significant, possibly e...
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Among the poets of the New Formalism, none has been more active as a force of organization and encouragement than Dana Gioia. Amid the chorus of New Formalist poets, Gioia's voice has been one of the ...
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Music impresario Quincy Jones was among six musicians named as National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters for 2008.The 2008 Jazz Masters were announced Tuesday night at a ceremony hosted by NEA C...
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Quincy Jones was among six musicians named as National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters for 2008.The 2008 Jazz Masters were announced Tuesday night at a ceremony hosted by NEA Chairman Dana Gioi...
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Within the past year, three of the most famous authors to emerge after World War II have died: Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut and William Styron. Their deaths all resulted in front-page stories, leng...
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The Roundabout productions currently on offer are a revival at the American Airlines Theatre of John van Druten’s inconsequential 1943 light comedy Old Acquaintance; and at the Laura Pels, Be...
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Wednesday 4thSome more things we're just not on board with: the warmed-over meat loaf that is the new New York Times Thursday Styles section. White power males swimming naked? Yuck! (We give them e...
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When Lee C. Bollinger took over the helm of Columbia University in 2002, he promised to be a patron of the arts, insisting that culture must be a fundamental element in university life—even i...
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When Lee C. Bollinger took over the helm of Columbia University in 2002, he promised to be a patron of the arts, insisting that culture must be a fundamental element in university life—even i...
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