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To do so is no small feat. Joan of Arc’s life has inspired more films, books and plays than that of any other saint in the whole pack—or, to use the proper term, “communion”—of saints.
In “Joan,” her affecting and adventurous new novel, Katherine J. Chen takes a lively stab, imagining the illiterate teenager as an abused child who uses her anger (and a remarkable tolerance ...
The fictional town of Dublin, Mo., has a hip-high, portico-columned “mansion,” a dollhouse-sized church with stained-glass windows and a steeple, and a courthouse shaded by a historic p… ...
As Saint Joan carries elements of Connolly’s secular martyrdom, O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars takes a different tack, yet still with Connolly echoes.
Mark Twain’s book on St. Joan of Arc shows that God can work spectacularly through the unlikeliest of candidates, whether humble maidens or skeptical authors.
G. B. S. Proves Himself an Incorrigible Idealist George Bernard Shaw presented to the world, with the season's greetings, three gifts—a play, a speech, a remark. The remark he sent through ...
Joan Didion’s diary of post-therapy notes, addressed to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, is going to be published in “Notes to John.” ...
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is opening a production centered around French saint Joan of Arc in which the titular warrior is depicted as "gender non-binary." ...
A contemporary set re-imagining of George Bernard Shaw's drama Saint Joan, written by Linda Marshall Griffiths and inspired by Greta Thunberg. Show more In Saint Joan of the Anthropocene, Linda ...
"Notes to John" is an intimate collection of journal writings from Joan Didion. Listen to an audio clip of the book narrated by Julianne Moore.
Joan of Arc Josephine Poole. Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, $17.95 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-679-89041-6 ...