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...idea of Duranty’s Pulitzer being revoked. “As someone who spent time in the Soviet Union while it still existed,” he said, “the notion of airbrushing history kind of gives me the creeps.” Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. also warned the Pulitzer Board against evoking such a “Stalinist practice.” (Neither he nor Keller specified how the board’s rescinding a journalism prize on account of documented fraud was at all comparable to a Stalinist purge...
...Marriott Hotel in New York City this week, the National Book Foundation plans to hand Stephen King its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Previous recipients of the medal include Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller and Toni Morrison, which makes King, an unrepentant horror monger, a controversial choice, to say the least. Shakespeare scholar and self-appointed canonmaker Harold Bloom called it a "terrible mistake" and added that King was an "immensely inadequate writer...
Directed by Andrew Arthur...
Award-winning author and illustrator David Macaulay, who has made his reputation by making the art of architectural design accessible to children and adults alike, elaborated on his new book, Mosque, to a crowd gathered in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum’s lecture hall last week...
COVER: Digital photomontage by Arthur Hochstein. Photos from 20th Century Fox, Universal and Miramax. Crowe by Nigel Parry