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Reading Camus in Algeria Today. Alice Kaplan blog#2
After my lecture at the Glycines, a university professor talked about what Camus means to Algerians today. What she said may have been familiar to everyone in the room, but it was completely new…
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Roberto Unger
More than thirty years ago I lived for a year in Cambridge MA and spent time in the Harvard undergraduate library. A young man who looked kind of like a bullfighter was always there,…
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Alice Kaplan guest blogger on Algeria at 50.
Am writing from my room in the Glycines study center, where the sound of honking cars and screaming people is keeping me awake at 2 am. Tomorrow, if all goes according to plan, the…
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Alice Kaplan, Guest Blogger
We're pleased to welcome Alice Kaplan as our guest blogger. Alice writes about French literature and history and teaches at Yale. In April she published Dreaming in French: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and…
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Happy Independence Day! Jump for Joy!
Former NYC Ballet Premier Danseur Jacques d’Amboise in George Balanchine‘s Stars and Stripes