Click Here to Read: Stephen Sondheim, The Art of the Musical Interviewed by James Lipton
in the Paris Review Issue 142, Spring 1997.
Stephen Sondheim. Image: Unknown Photographer. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Category: Arts
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
Outward Signs of Inner Mysteries: Eric Gudas on the work and afterlife of the misunderstood photographer Diane Arbus
Click Here to Read: Outward Signs of Inner Mysteries: Eric Gudas on the work and afterlife of the misunderstood photographer Diane Arbus By Eric Gudas on the LA RB website on January 5, 2026.
Diane Arbus Constellation, photography exhibit at Park Avenue Armory. Image: Kenneth C. Zirkel. Public Domian via Wikimedia Commons. 
Dante and Milton, Religion and Politics
Click Here to Read: Dante and Milton, Religion and Politics: Four centuries and a thousand miles apart, each epic poet was traumatized by bloody factional strife that tore his country to pieces. One craved a worldwide monarchy. The other supported a regicide by Jamey Hecht on his Substack on January 6, 2026.
Gustav Doré, Satan Confronting Sin and Death at the Gates of Hell, c 1880. Woodcut on wove paper by Francois Pannemaker and Albert Doms. Collection of the Satanic Temple. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. 
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell audiobook review – the life and loss of the woman behind the Bard
Click Here to Read: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell audiobook review – the life and loss of the woman behind the Bard: The wife of William Shakespeare takes centre stage in a rich, sensitive examination of parental grief, sensitively narrated by Jessie Buckley by Fiona Sturges on the Guardian website on December 25, 2025.
Jessie Buckley at the premiere of Hamnet at the Toronto International Film Festival. Image: Jay Dixit. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Why We Dance: The surprising link between talking and moving to the beat
Click to Read: Why We Dance: The surprising link between talking and moving to the beat Gregory Hickok on his Wired for Words blog on the Psychology Today blogs on December 1, 2025.
Greg Sample and Jennita Russo of Deyo Dances performing in the modern ballet Brasileiro. Image: Barry Goyette from San Luis Obispo, USA Public Domain via WIkimedia Commons.
3 New eBooks from IPBooks
Just Published! 3 New eBooks from IPBooks
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