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James Ivory talks about E. M. Forster’s “Maurice,” a gay love story with a happy ending. Plus, Jon Lee Anderson talks about the rise and fall of Manuel Noriega. (episode)
“Those balcony seats are probably pretty plush. I guess if you’re about to be assassinated, you deserve to be comfortable.” A few random thoughts from the cheap seats.
An expert on North Korea thinks that the Trump Administration’s response to Pyongyang’s aggression is “not yet coherent.”
The veteran reporter Jon Lee Anderson had a rare prison interview with Noriega, not long before the deposed dictator’s death.
E. M. Forster’s “Maurice” was something entirely new: a gay love story with a happy ending. The Merchant Ivory film adaptation, from 1987, has just been re-released.
After a poet lost her home, she started a new life as a ballroom dancer.