Arts
In Tom Hanks' iPad App, Typewriters Make Triumphant Return (Ding!)
For iPad users who are nostalgic for the clickety-clack of keystrokes and "ding!" of the carriage return, Hanks has created Hanx Writer, an app that simulates using a typewriter.
'Warburg' Struggles For Love And Justice In Wartime Rome
James Carroll's experience as a Catholic priest informs his new Warburg in Rome, which follows an American tasked with rescuing European Jews in the aftermath of the Nazi occupation of Rome.
SCOTUS On Cellphones And The Privacy Of Poetry
To put a literary spin on the Supreme Court's recent decision to limit warrantless cellphone searches, author Craig Morgan Teicher turns to A.R. Ammons' book of poetry, Tape for the Turn of the Year.
'10:04': A Strange, Spectacular Novel Connecting Several Plotlines
Ben Lerner's new novel is about a writer who gets an advance for a second work of fiction, is diagnosed with an aortic heart valve problem and agrees to be the sperm donor for a close friend.
Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance presents La Cage aux Folles
La Cage aux Folles the musical comes to the Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance this month.
Deborah Rutter Becomes Kennedy Center's First Female President
On Monday, Deborah Rutter begins her job as president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. She says it never occurred to her that she would be the first woman in the job.
'A Thousand Mirrors' Shows Two Views Of One Long, Brutal War
In her new novel, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, Sri Lankan-American author Nayomi Munaweera shows the decades-long Sri Lankan civil war from the perspective of two girls who witness the horror.