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I first encountered Samuel Barber's opera in 1979, when, at thirteen, I happened to catch a PBS broadcast of a production at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, which had been directed by Barber's longtime partner, the composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti. I was hooked at once, swayed by the astonishing beauty of the music and the unerring craftsmanship that held it all together. The crux of the plot-an aging aristocrat waiting for her long-lost lover-was alien to my experience, but Barber's constant current of melody revealed such a profound sympathy for his characters that I was carried along with the tide.

As a boy, he'd "read American history, not for school, not because I had to, but because I had, by accident, stepped through the thin, crackly crust of the present, and felt the first pull of the quicksand about my ankles." Tripping into that quicksand is how Burden would one day end up doing Stark's dreadful bidding: using his formidable research skills to discover the darkest deeds in the deepest past of Stark's political enemies. But, as Warren insisted, "the story of Willie Stark and the story of Jack Burden are, in one sense, one story." They're in that quicksand together, up to their gizzards.

Brown's reporting is widely credited with leading to the arrests of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell for their sordid child sex trafficking scheme, as well as exposing details about the controversially lenient plea deal Epstein secured in an earlier criminal case.

Pulitzer jurors praised the newsroom for piercing the veil of secrecy around the Trump administration's chaotic overhaul of federal agencies and chronicling in rich detail the human impacts of the cuts and the consequences for the country.

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Michael Abels, best known for his scores for films by director Jordan Peele, will visit campus March 6-7 for two days of public events and concerts. The visit is part of the College of Arts and Sciences' Arts Unplugged series, in partnership with the Department of Music and the Barbara & Richard T. Silver Wind Symphony. Abels won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for the opera "Omar," co-composed with Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens, and he earned Emmy and Grammy nominations for his scores for the Peele films "Get Out," "Us" and "Nope." His many concert works include the choral song cycle "At War With Ourselves" for the Kronos Quartet, and the Grammy-nominated "Isolation Variation" for violinist Hilary Hahn.

"He possesses a quiet, encyclopaedic knowledge of art, and in column after column he connected the dots of culture, history, folklore, civics and psychology in razor-sharp assessments of what a piece of art really means, or how a particular exhibition is poised to change the narrative around a longstanding or misguided idea. In short, he is everything a truly excellent critic should be."

Some people mistake writer Junot Diaz, 56, for a rock star even though he doesn't look like one. The writer who does look like one and who also wanders the halls is Mariana Enriquez, with her gray hair and black clothes. The Argentine is another illustrious participant in the Cosmopoetica Festival, which ended on October 5. What the audacious Leiva fan doesn't know is that he's standing before a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

In Gaza, every destroyed house becomes a kind of album, filled not with photos but with real people, the dead pressed between its pages.