Hilton Als

Special Guest: Hilton Als

Arts, Culture & Media

Hilton Als is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he writes about music and film and literature. He is the author of The Women, a memoir about racial and sexual identity. His new book, The Group, about the writer James Baldwin and his devotees, will be published next spring.

Mamet’s “Race”

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

At the Sound of the Beep

Arts, Culture & Media

The Steady Rise of “For Colored Girls”

Arts, Culture & Media

Toni Morrison Reads from Song of Solomon

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Mamet’s ‘Race’

Conflict & Justice

Ads for David Mamet’s new play proclaim it his “most explosive four-letter word yet.” Mamet has always courted controversy on hot-button issues. “Race”, now on Broadway, is about a diverse team of lawyers defending a white man accused of raping a black woman. Kurt sees the show with Hilton Als, theater critic for The New […]