The ten plays in August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle have all appeared on Broadway, but spot the odd one out: Looking at the columns for "Year of premiere" and "Opened on Broadway", they're at most 2-3 years apart except for the very first one, Jitney, which was written in 1979 and first produced i...

I think about this story so often and would love to own a copy of it. The story tells of a man sitting in the train in post world war 2 Germany. He is eating a bag of cherries, enjoying the rare treat. When he is down to the last one, he realizes the boy sitting across from him was looking on in ...

Jhumpa Lahiri This Pulitzer Prizewinner has written both novels and short stories, in at least two languages (English and Italian), as well as doing translation work. Many of her works focus on the lives of (nth-generation) immigrants from India to the US, such as her first short story collection...