The Door Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism (1997) the writing workshop has endured

the writing workshop has endured and even flourished in thousands of schools across the country

What begins as the story of a lost boy turns into a story of a brave man yearning to understand what happened that night

who drew his visions of Hell and Purgatory partly from the surreal panorama of Carrara's quarries

Barthes' A Lover's Discourse is a book for everyone who has ever been in love

watching Alec Guinness prepare for his role as George Smiley in the legendary BBC TV adaptations of  Tinker

The Door Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism (1997) the writing workshop has enduredThe Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public spirited, with an on again off again relationship to Hungarys Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. She is Magdas housekeeper and she has taken control over