IT is always good news to hear that new champions are coming forward to translate Don Quixote into English. It is a bold deed, well worthy a knight-errant of the pen ; and if many men make the attempt ...
Anyone who’s grown up under communism can appreciate Cuban émigré Erisbel Tavio’s taste in books. To survive totalitarian governments, and occasionally stand up to them, it helps to be a little crazy.
Left: Seniors Julia Ressler (left) and Indu Datta-Barua donned "armor" for their parts of the reading. Photos: John Jameson Several events celebrating the 400th anniversary of the great literary work ...
Hiroshi Shimizu wants you in his comedy boat. Settle down, it’s not a kidnap threat – it’s a metaphor for life, and an endearing one, once you get to it. Japanese Samurai Don Quixote Challenging Giant ...
Gustave Doré's illustration of Don Quixote and Rosinante felled by the sail of a windmill, while Sancho looks on despairingly First, the sound. The Wigmore Hall can be as unpredictable as the Royal ...
Was Don Quixote’s impossible dream a Yiddisher one? The French author Dominique Aubier, whose study “Don Quixote: Prophet of Israel” has just been reprinted, apparently thinks so. Aubier’s book, which ...
It is with some trepidation that I gaze upon the 2022 dance calendar. As the omicron variant rips through the performing arts scene, COVID-19 rears its ugly head (again), forcing cancellations and ...
Aejandro Amenabar's new film portrays pre-fame scribe Miguel Cervantes as a Spanish hostage in a 16th-century Algiers — a ...
No dance work is as closely associated with Boston Ballet as Rudolf Nureyev’s “Don Quixote.” Back in 1982, Nureyev — then a still spry 44 — staged his version of the 1869 Marius Petipa ballet for the ...
Last year, a panel of 100 writers from around the world picked "Don Quixote" as the greatest novel of all time. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Edith Grossman, who wrote the most-recent translation of ...
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza ride again! Here they are guided by their creator, Miguel de Cervantes, in person. In this "buddies on the road" saga, the intrepid Don Quixote and his loyal squire, ...