Entertainment & Arts
Events in early America took an ominous turn in Salem, Mass. Playwright Amy Freed makes frisky comparisons to today in ‘Safe in Hell.’
April 12, 2004
Opinion
Less than 25% of Black Americans are vaccinated. The story of Onesimus, an enslaved man in the 1700s, could persuade more of them to get the COVID shot.
Aug. 19, 2021
Books
The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather by Michael G.
Jan. 7, 1988
Safe in Hell: The stodgy connotations of “Safe” shouldn’t deter anyone from seeing “Safe in Hell.”
May 6, 2004
World & Nation
A shameless betrayal of principles surrounded the 17th century Salem witch trials. Here’s why I felt compelled to deal with it as farce -- and now.
April 4, 2004
A GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS: Bioengineering and the Future of Food by Robin Mather (Dutton: $23.95; 224 pp.).
June 18, 1995
Archives
Education: A 17th century Puritan provides some contemporary advice about learning and discipline.
July 19, 1998
Television
UNDERRATED David Mitchell’s “Slade House”: A rare testament to the positive uses of social media (see this week’s Overrated section), this 2015 novel from the writer of “Cloud Atlas” rose out of a Twitter experiment and grew into what may be the most chillingly inventive beach reads of the year.
July 29, 2016
Business
Maxwell House Drops Ad Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, the U.S. ad agency soon to be under the ownership of the British WPP Group, lost one big client and held on to a smaller one.
May 29, 1989
Readings of works in progress by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies (“Dinner With Friends”) and Pulitzer finalists Amy Freed (“Freedomland”) and Howard Korder (“Boy’s Life”) will highlight the sixth annual Pacific Playwrights Festival, May 16-18, at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa.
March 24, 2003