HomeAuthor: DENNIS ALTMAN

Author: DENNIS ALTMAN

DENNIS ALTMAN

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About Tennessee Williams

What follows is the first English translation of a piece by the great Japanese novelist, poet, and playwright Yukio Mishima (1925–1970), which appeared in the September 1966 issue of Higeki Kigeki(“Tragedy and Comedy”).

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Tennessee and Mishima in Conversation

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS and Yukio Mishima talked about their work and work routines in 1959. The conversation was lightly moderated by Williams’ life partner Frank Merlo, whom Mishima refers to as Williams’ “secretary.” Also present was Williams’ friend Donald Richie, who chimes in near the end.

Essays

The Unknown Andrea Dworkin

Author’s Note: Most people know Andrea Dworkin as the radical feminist who launched a campaign against pornography in the 1980s and ’90s, but this is only one slice of a fascinating life of activism. I’ve recently completed a full-scale biography of Andrea Dworkin that will be published ... in 2020. It’s based on her remarkably rich (and previously closed) archive at Schlesinger Library at Harvard.

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What Ayn Rand Hoped You’d Miss

SET ASIDE how you feel personally about novelist Ayn Rand—perhaps you even went through a Rand phase in high school—but the fact is that she remains a force to be reckoned with in modern political and ideological life.
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