Melissa James Gibson is at once an anomaly among contemporary playwrights and a sterling emblem of her contemporary theatrical period. As anomaly, she imbues each work with a singular integrity that seems almost defiant of the current overriding trend of theatrical collectives and hive-minde
Paul Erdös was one of the most eminent mathematicians of the twentieth century, as famed for his prolific output and outsize capacity for abstract mathematic comprehension as he was for his incurable wanderlust and distaste for sleep. His extraordinary productivity, preference for colla
The collected folk and fairy tales of writers and linguists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are in most cases now better known for their recent – and largely prettified – adaptations than for the brothers' renditions of them; thus, the gruesomeness of some of their most famous stories –