When Kori Schake first heard U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken articulate the future of American foreign policy, she felt something she hadn’t felt from a presidential administration in years: comfort. And when she read
It’s Alexander Gavrylyuk’s goal to connect the tragedy of the crisis in Ukraine to the tragic undertones in his music. His concert at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday, June 29, in the Amphitheater will start with “Moonlight
In her upcoming weeklong class — the first Chautauqua Writers’ Center workshop of the 2022 season — novelist and educator Jimin Han wants to shake things up a bit for attendees. “If you offer different
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram kicked off the 2022 Chautauqua Writers’ Festival Wednesday, June 22, by reciting a simple dictionary definition to their audience: “Resilience,” Bertram said, “is the power or ability of a material to return to
Wang Jack Wang’s debut short story collection, We Two Alone, came at the end of a very long road — he’ll be 48 years old when it’s finally published in September. “Being a late bloomer
The words “refugee” and “immigrant” are not interchangeable — the first word has often been used in the media to describe victims of horrifying circumstances, and the second, as a way of preserving the mythology
Of all the questions posed by the coronavirus pandemic, one of the most important is how exactly schools — both primary and secondary schools, as well as institutions of higher education — reopen safely. Fore
Though it may have been a recording, the Miller Bell Tower rang out just as true as it always has on Saturday, marking the beginning of Chautauqua’s first virtual Bryant Day. The Bryant Day ceremony
The influence of music on Ralph Black’s poetry started when his parents met in Buffalo, New York — his father was the manager of the Buffalo Philharmonic, where his mother was a violinist. Black “This
For his CHQ Assembly Online Classroom workshop, Jack Wang said he wants to examine fiction through an unlikely lens — that of evolutionary psychology and neuroscience. Wang, an author, educator and the Week Nine prose
Snodgrass Among the winning poetry and prose showcased in the Friends of the Chautauqua Writers' Center’s Contests Awards Sunday, Aug. 16, on Zoom was a piece by May Kuroiwa called “Just Like the First Time”
When Lori Jakiela was young, the idea of being a writer wasn’t acceptable — it was like saying, “I want to be invisible,” or, “I want to be an apple.” It just didn’t happen. Jakiela
When David Treuer set out to write his first full-length work of nonfiction on reservation life in the United States, he thought it wouldn’t be difficult. “I thought writing nonfiction was going to be easy,”
In Emily Bazelon’s estimation, the separation between politics and law has always been foggy. Bazelon Historically, it’s been judges who are the ones that have professed to sharpen it. “In July 2013, Aimee Stephens wrote
While the 2020 season at Chautauqua may have been drastically different from a normal year, not all of the changes brought on by the pandemic have been negative. Some have been opportunities for Chautauquans to
When Lori Jakiela returned to The University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg after a battle with breast cancer, she decided to start a series of courses on writing and the healing arts. Jakiela “Because I had seen the