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In September 2010, I spent a good deal of time in Prague visiting places associated with Czech playwright, dissident and President Václav Havel – who would have been 90 today.

It is a rainy blustery Sunday in Philadelphia, and one hopes that is not the last one in the centuries of The Academy of Natural Sciences' public-facing story.

My latest post on ZONA MOTEL is a conversation with Nashville-based songwriter Paul Burch about the town where he lives and works, as well as his 2016 record, MERIDIAN RISING, and a novel of the same name that he published with the University of Georgia p…

Last week, I published a review of Unruly Revolutionary – Mitchell Abidor's recent biography of Victor Serge – at Zona Motel.

Listen to the FREE Congressman Davy radio play!

Congressman Davy – the new musical I have written with Dean Schlabowske about Davy Crockett's political rise and fall – has had a long journey.

It is a very exciting day for this dramatist.

It was more than a bit of a thrill to find a new review of Beauty Doesn't Reach Me (We Heard You Like Books) in my email today.

My new book, Beauty Doesn’t Reach Me, examines the journey of antifascist playwright Ernst Toller’s death mask from the hands of its maker to the collection at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York City.

Neil Denny's Little Atoms podcast is one of the best places to check in on the latest intellectual currents in literature, science, art and politics.

This is the fourth and final essay in a series written to coincide with the publication of Beauty Doesn’t Reach Me (We Heard You Like Books).

This is the third in a series of essays written to coincide with the publication of Beauty Doesn’t Reach Me (We Heard You Like Books).

This is the second in a series of essays written to coincide with the publication of Beauty Doesn’t Reach Me (We Heard You Like Books).

This is the first in a series of essays written to coincide with the publication of Beauty Doesn’t Reach Me (We Heard You Like Books).

We have put together an all-star cast for Congressman Davy- a musical journey that revisits the political career of Davy Crockett that I have written with Dean Schlabowske.

We are bringing Congressman Davy – a new musical about Davy Crockett's political career – to a wider public for America's Semiquincentennial in 2026.

On this day, two centuries ago, there was a revolt in Saint Petersburg.