by Raouf J. Halaby | Jul 6, 2009 | Opinion
It is a safe bet to state that Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka are perhaps the world’s foremost writers to have expounded on and to have initiated a fictional genre that deals with art and the artist. Each of these writers delved into and expounded on the complex...
by Raouf J. Halaby | Jan 14, 2009 | Opinion
In his 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning antiwar play, “The Teahouse of the August Moon,” playwright John Patrick created the fictional village of Tobiki on the island of Okinawa in post-World War II Japan. Representing the Allied occupying forces, Col. Purdy...