Topic: Samuel Beckett

10 best books of January, according to Amazon's editors

Amazon editorial director Sara Nelson shares her thoughts about the Amazon staff picks for the 10 best books of January 2013. 

Mo Yan: Why the Swedish Academy awarded Mo Yan the Nobel Prize (+video)

Mo Yan s the first Chinese winner of the literature prize who is not a critic of China's government, but the Swedish Academy says that it did not take political considerations into account when selecting the popular novelist.

New Ways to Kill Your Mother

Author and essayist Colm Tóibín explores the ways that writers' families influence their work.

The 100 best books of all time

How many of these "100 best books of all time" have you read?

Censored: 5 plays and novels banned around the globe

Censorship of the arts has a long history, from ancient Greece to present-day Thailand. Here is a list of five plays and novels banned, for a variety of reasons, in regions across the globe.

Perry's tax cuts will be huge for the wealthy. How huge?

Perry’s “Cut, Balance, and Grow” fiscal platform will lavish huge tax cuts on the wealthy. It will cut taxes for some of the working poor. And it will also add trillions to the deficit.

The Marketplace of Ideas

What’s wrong with the higher education system in the US and how can we fix it?

Robert Frank: His photographs recorded an unvarnished America

Robert Frank's candid images exposed the underside of midcentury America and were initially reviled.

As with his creative works, Merce Cunningham had a vision for his legacy

The choreography created a precedent-setting living egacy plan to avoid the bitter feuds that entangled Martha Graham's work after her death.

Opinion: Melvin Maddocks: an appreciation

All the world on stage

New International theater festival in California offers audiences a window on foreign cultures – and shared stories.