Groening mentioned the passing of Jules Feiffer in his speech, noting how much the integrity of that famed cartoonist had had an impact on him and his approach to creating real and human art.

Note: This story was originally published May 30, 2025 and updated June 8 after Purpose won the Tony Award for Best Play. In a pivotal scene in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Purpose, Solomon Jasper, a ...

Congratulations to Percival Everett, who won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel "James." The perspective of "James" is that of Huckleberry Finn’s comrade, Jim, bringing Mark Twain ...

Pulitzer Prize winner Susie Ibarra, set to perform multiple times at the Ojai Music Festival, is still getting used to the accolades. “This is kind of enormous how much reception this piece and ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Margo Jefferson sits down with the debut novelist to discuss the makings of his literary mystery, from channeling the work of E. Franklin Frazier and Frantz Fanon ...

The late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke offered some prescient advice to his audience when he accepted the Dayton Peace Prize in 2005. “Dayton should celebrate peace every year,” he said.

Her mother, the only woman to win a pair of Pulitzer Prizes for drama, for “Ruined” and “Sweat, ” suggested Gerber adapt it with her into an opera composed by Gordon, Nottage’s partner on “Intimate ...

Jordan Harrison’s play Marjorie Prime and Gina Gionfriddo’s comedy Becky Shaw – both Pulitzer Prize finalists – will be presented on Broadway as part of Second Stage Theater‘s 2025-26 ...

A departure from his Pulitzer Prize-winning two-volume biography of W.E.B. DuBois, Little Rock native David Levering Lewis’ new book, “The Stained Glass Window,” is a loving work of ...

Once called “our present-day Homer” for her sprawling, experimental epics, she was honored with prizes and was a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1999. By Ash Wu Alice Notley, a prizewinning poet ...

Bennett and Goldberg will each be recognized with the Freedom of the Press Career Achievement Award, which honors individuals with a long history of upholding the value of freedom of the press ...