As I sometimes — or quite a lot of the time — find myself disposed to avoid the demands of work and household, my favorite dodge is perusing much read books for those “juicy” parts that I’ve doted ...

On Jan. 18, 1937, Samuel Beckett wrote from Berlin to his friend Mary Manning Howe of Boston about his not-yet-published first novel, “Murphy,” whose opening line introduced an authorial voice unlike ...

“Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right senses. Then it passes off, and I'm as intelligent as ever.” Samuel Beckett’s "Endgame," currently playing at the Irish Arts Center under the superb direction of ...