American Women in Saigon
Alice McDermott’s new novel gives us remarkably realistic characters while fleshing out the zeitgeist of the 1960s as experienced by American women expats in Vietnam.
Book Markers: From Kafka to Kroeger
Francis Levy talks his new story collection, “The Kafka Studies Department,” while Brooke Kroeger and David Alpern discuss her book “Undaunted” and women in the history of journalism.
Robert Wilson: Big in Japan
Richard Rutkowski, a former assistant to and longtime friend of Robert Wilson of the Watermill Center, chronicles his trip to Japan to see Mr. Wilson, and four other notables, receive the Praemium Imperiale, often described as the Nobel Prize of the arts.
Members Show Winners Announced
Claire Watson took the top honors prize in Guild Hall’s Artist Members Exhibition, with honorable mentions going to Chris Siefert, Philippe Cheng, Michael Butler, Isla T. Hansen, and Mary Martha Lambert.