A Six-Point Plan To Fix Humanities Graduate Schools

“The journalist and writer Anya Kamenetz once said that graduate students are ‘really smart suckers,’ and I – as a Ph.D. who teaches at a liberal arts college – couldn’t agree more. … Now I’d like to suggest a plan for reforming higher education in the humanities that could, someday, make graduate education a responsible, ethical option for … students everywhere.”

Pop-Up Theatre: Now Even England’s National Theatre Is Doing It

NT associate director Ben Power: “There’s a certain energy that comes from knowing that a space that was built and used as something else is being inhabited by a particular performance. That both performers and audience are interlopers or invaders in someone else’s space. The idea that the space will revert to another use after the final show.”

Black Kid From Oakland Becoming Beijing Opera Star

Fifteen-year-old Tyler Thompson began studying traditional Chinese opera in a local education program, and “became a sensation in China several years ago after Chinese Central Television broadcast his performance at a Lunar New Year show in San Jose.” Says one aficionado, “It’s very authentic because he hits the tones just right, so you understand everything.”

Former Poetry Society Leader Speaks About The Organization’s Disfunction

“Given the current state of the Poetry Society’s Arts Council funding (suspended until further notice), the Board’s ‘no-one need know’ approach does not appear to have served the Society well. Out of concern for my colleagues I have been wary of making the Board’s actions public. It seems quite clear, however, that funding cannot flow again, until the truth is out and a new Board is up.”