Originally published in 1923, the works were slated to enter the public domain — meaning others are free to adapt and otherwise use them — in 1999. But Congress extended the copyrights for 20 more years.
Literature
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Why the writer Richard Rodriguez refuses to be put into a box
Part of Richard Rodriguez’s charm is his refusal to play to people’s expectations of who he should be.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Is ‘Watership Down’ really for kids?
A new Netflix miniseries brings out the story’s aspects of adventure and conflict, with occasionally pulse-pounding results.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Atticus Finch and Howard Beale finally get their Broadway moment
Two starry new Broadway productions have no qualms about speaking their mind.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘Brideshead Revisited’ changed my life. Can it work its magic on the ‘Downton Abbey’ generation?
A 11-part television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s great novel aired weekly on PBS in 1981.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Machado de Assis, the ‘writer’s Catholic writer’
The stories of Machado de Assis let us imagine our way into familiar perspectives and situations from unexpected vantages that enlarge and transform our sense of what is and what can be in this life, and the next.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Oscar Wilde finds Christ in “The Happy Prince”
“The Happy Prince” covers only the last few years of Oscar Wilde’s life. When it touches on religion, it is intensely interesting.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘King Lear’ returns to film, prophetic as ever
A new adaptation from the BBC and Amazon makes ideal use of a sensational cast of British actors.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Tara Isabella Burton’s new novel is a vivid account of how sin slowly creeps in
Review of ‘Social Creature,’ by Tara Isabella Burton
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The tragedy of Joyce Kilmer, the Catholic poet killed in World War I
The celebrated writer is best known for his 1913 poem “Trees.”