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0N JULY 3, SIR TOM STOPPARD TURNED 65. Month late; he opened the most ambitious theatrical undertaking of his career-a nine-hour trilogy of plays under the collective title The Coast [...]

A description is presented of the personality, lifestyle and career of artist Yiu Ngok Yuen. His portrayal of the clash of civilizations in China and the history of China is discussed. His reason for leaving China is considered.

The article critiques the book "The Feminine Mystique," by Betty Friedan, with information on the 50th anniversary edition of the book in 2013. Topics include social conditions for women in the second half of the 20th century, notions of femininity and domesticity, gender inequality in the workforce, and modern articles on working mothers, women's rights, and feminism.

The article presents information about the book "Self-Help Nation: The Long Overdue, Entirely Justified, Delightfully Hostile Guide to the Snake-Oil Peddlers Who Are Sapping Our Nation's Soul," by Tom Tiede. As the full title of this self-indulgent rant suggests, Tiede hates self-help books most of all. And he's not shy about expressing his antipathy. Self-improvement books are narcotics in ink, he declares in "Magic Bullets," the chapter that opens Self-Help Nation. In picking on self-help books, the author has chosen a target as wide as, well, the U.S. And he's clearly right about a few things: The wave of self-help books has become tidal, flooding an oversaturated market.

Byline: JULIA M. KLEIN Amherst, Mass. -- On a recent morning, Christopher Benfey is serving as a genial guide to this quiet New England college town of churches, craft shops, [...]

Byline: JULIA M. KLEIN 'If I could turn back time' -- so begins one pop anthem regretting harsh words and lost love. In the theater, time can reverse itself -- [...]

Byline: JULIA M. KLEIN New York -- On the bitterly chilly night of Monday, March 5, the wood-paneled Art Deco auditorium of the 92nd Street Y was a warm place [...]

Byline: JULIA M. KLEIN Tom Stoppard's calling card as a playwright has always been his linguistic and philosophical virtuosity. Though he doesn't tout himself as a theatrical innovator, he has [...]

Byline: JULIA M. KLEIN As a photographer, Diane Arbus seemed fearless, but she conquered her fear only in stages. Describing her artistic pursuits as 'a kind of contemporary anthropology,' Arbus [...]

Byline: JULIA M. KLEIN Theater critics aren't always the savviest harbingers of revolution -- nor, for that matter, its most ardent advocates. Even so, it is startling to note the [...]

Byline: JULIA M. KLEIN Philadelphia -- In one scene in Caryl Churchill's brilliant 1976 play, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, two unnamed women engaged in wartime looting glimpse themselves in a [...]

Byline: JULIA M. KLEIN The haunting strains of Kurt Weill's music for The Threepenny Opera are an indelible part of American popular culture -- and, for those of us who [...]

Byline: JULIA M. KLEIN In America today, higher education is coupled with the idea of meritocracy. Academe screens the worthy and bestows credentials that, in turn, lead to worldly success. [...]

IF YOU'RE AN arts journalist, freelancing offers special challenges--especially if you're trying to keep an eye on the bottom line. Arts-oriented publications generally pay less than health or business magazines, […]

Byline: JULIA M. KLEIN In Cologne, the bus was waiting as the last stragglers sprinted across the street. Our German bus driver, unaware that his fetish for punctuality was verging [...]

Byline: Julia M. Klein It's already been ballyhooed in The New York Times, Newsday, and Time magazine as part of a post-9/11 nesting trend. Now, more than two years after [...]

How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States. By Joanne Meyerowitz. Harvard. 363 pp. $29.95. Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites With Attitude. By Amy Bloom. [...]

Byline: Julia M. Klein The latest incarnation of Ms. magazine, under the aegis of the Arlington, Virginia-based Feminist Majority Foundation, is off to a rocky start. A planned September launch [...]

The article discusses physical memorials to Germany's 20th century history, including Nazism, the Holocaust and dictator Adolf Hitler, in Berlin, Germany today, focusing on three sites. Topics include a discussion of how the past is presented at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Topography of Terror, and the German Resistance Memorial Center; and the purpose of each of the sites and how the narrative they present.