The National Humanities Center has now put up a website with all the application details for the two Summer Institutes for 2011: Christopher Ricks on T. S. Eliot’s poetry and Toril Moi on Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
I have just uploaded the pdf file of my latest column (in Norwegian) for Dagens Næringsliv, which discusses Rebecca Skloot’s book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Article on The Master Builder in The Guardian
My essay on The Master Builder has just been published in  The Guardian (Review section,  Saturday 4 December, 2010, page 14). I see that someone has posted a comment wondering why I don’t mention the new production of the play at the Almeida Theatre in London. The reason is that I haven’t seen it. (I was asked to write about Ibsen’s play, not to review the new production.) I would, of course, have loved to see Stephen Dillane and Gemma Arterton tackle Ibsen’s challenges. But I live in North Carolina!