Roth accepts the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award From Youtube: ‘The PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award honors a writer whose critically acclaimed work has drawn a wide audience and helps us to understand the human condition in original and powerful ways. The 2013 recipient of the award was Philip Roth.’ [Read More] Also at A Piece of Monologue: Writers: Philip Roth

The latest issue of English Studies Pete Postlethwaite plays the lead in a production of Shakespeare's King Lear Shakespeare and Theory: Special Issue I Guest Editors: François-Xavier Gleyzon and Johann Gregory The latest issue of English Studies (a Taylor and Francis journal) is a special issue on Shakespeare and Theory. Contents (Vol. 94.3) Thinking through Shakespeare: An Introduction

A new documentary, nine years in the making J. D. Salinger From Paul Harris (The Guardian): JD Salinger, the elusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, was one of America's most famous recluses and guarded his private life with fanatical dedication. Yet even he might have been impressed by the immense efforts being undertaken to keep details secret of a new documentary that has been made