Born on April 13, 1906, Samuel Beckett remains one of Ireland’s most ... To celebrate his birthday, we’ve gathered some of his most memorable quotes—each a window into the brilliant, complex ...

Before Pope Francis was elected in 2013, a blog for Businessweek compared the conclave to a multi-national company’s search ...

Fresh Air host Terry Gross lost her husband on April 14. They were together for 47 years. Today, she shares some of Francis ...

Quote, "Coltrane worries the notes of each ... looked like a Corn Belt Samuel Beckett. Francis and I met through music. He was managing the record store on the University of Pennsylvania campus ...

The quote is, "Bonneville, resembling a canceled journalist ... And so the wit and the humor that he brings with his sort of Irish sensibilities really play on the almost Samuel Beckett-like desperate ...

which continues this coming weekend, takes place in-and-around Enniskillen, where Ireland’s Nobel Laureate Samuel Beckett ... Directed by notable quotations from Waiting for Godot, OMG!’ ...

These were moments of “emotion recollected in tranquility,” to quote Wordsworth’s definition ... It would depend, it seems, on the viewer. When Samuel Beckett saw the painting a century ...

Music writing can also be lovely and fascinating, though too often it is not. In his Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion, the American pianist and musicologist Charles Rosen describes some of ...