August 2022

Fourteen weeks after Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thus its de facto head of government, Chautauqua Institution opened its 1985 season with a

With an emphatic and delicate view toward religion and spirituality, author Mirabai Starr plans to enhance the view of “Dark Night of the Soul,” a poem by 16th-century Spanish mystic and priest St. John of

It begins with a poem: “When I see the first / New moon, faint in the twilight, / I think of the moth eyebrows / Of a girl I saw only once.” That brief poem