"The great secret that all old people share," Doris Lessing once told O Magazine, "is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all." These words aptly describe not only novelist Hilma Wolitize

"Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Now that the campaign surge of Pennsylvania's "favorite son," Rick Santorum, keeper of public "morality," has turned media attention to the culture wars, it behooves us to consider what kind of s

The editors of the Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, polled a panel of 100 authors from 54 countries on what they considered the “best and most central works in world literature.” Among the authors polled were Milan Kundera, Doris

A French performer decodes Indian spirituality. A Bharatanatyam dancer enacts Doris Lessing. But contemporary dance has a unique crisis, says Janani Ganesan DESPITE THE NOW solitary room, the mirror-lined walls and a linoleum mat-covered floor ease the g

The Grandmothers in Sydney, Australia on Thursday, February 9 and we've got some photos below. Based on a Doris Lessing novel, the film is an erotic tale of misguided love. Xavier Samuel and James Frecheville also star. The book, featuring four short sto

This is a great article, Jon; I have to stop and think about these things all the time. How do you feel about the fact that in certain cases, when enough people use a word incorrectly for a long enough period of time, the incorrect usage becomes accepted