Back in 2012, I interviewed Ayad Akhtar in front of a live audience at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. Akhtar was still a year away from winning the Pulitzer Prize for his dynamic drama ...

Librarians are going to have a hard job deciding where to shelve Ayad Akhtar’s bracing and revealing new book. "Homeland Elegies" (Little, Brown, 343 pp., ★★★½ out of four) follows the story of a ...

‘Elegies’ by Becky Kolsrud at JTT Gallery installation view Becky Kolsrud / JTT Gallery Kolsrud pulls from a wide aesthetic vocabulary to articulate her anguish. Consider her painting Inscape ...

The 'Big Sick' actor will also be an executive producer of a limited series based on Ayad Akhtar's acclaimed novel. By Rick Porter Television Business Editor The Disney-owned cable outlet won the ...

Acting Up Stage's revival of Elegies: A Song Cycle is welcome if only because it allows us to get intimate with Thom Allison. The magnetic actor-singer, who has lit up the Shaw Festival main stage in ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The producers of the quirky and uplifting musical, Elegies – A Song Cycle have ...

“Passionate, Disturbing, Unputdownable” is how the author Salman Rushdie describes Ayad Akhtar’s latest novel, “Homeland Elegies” in a blurb. Indeed, the book, which scampers between memoir and ...

An end-of-year series as the Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs this year. Look back on the series and watch for more ...

An elegy is a mournful poem expressing regret for something lost. Ayad Akhtar’s brilliant new novel, “Homeland Elegies,” mourns an America that has lost its way in the half-century since it welcomed ...

Inspired by horrible historic events, iLiKETRAiNS specialize in the pressing weight of the inevitable, which may be why, for all its strengths, this otherwise strong debut has a been-there-done-that ...

The former Megafaun drummer uses a resonant, melodic palette of gamelan, thumb piano, and metallophones to achieve gemlike tones and ambient atmospheres. Save this story Save this story Milford Graves ...