Interviews

Beer-Brewing Women, Soused Workers Built Pyramids: Lewis Lapham “The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer,” according to the ancient Egyptians, and on that basis it was a happy society.

Shaq Takes Shot at Art as Curator of Show ’Size DOES Matter’ Shaquille O’Neal, the 7’1” all-star center with the National Basketball Association’s Cleveland Cavaliers, has discovered that art is no slam dunk.

Sexy Blues Makes ‘Memphis’ Sing After Years On Road: Interview For several weeks, now, Montego Glover and Chad Kimball have been singing the blues -- some lowdown, all high spirited -- in “Memphis,” the season’s most unabashedly feel-good musical.

Big Hunter Roosevelt Saved 230 Million Acres of Wild America The blizzard in Yosemite came thick and fast, yet the two outdoorsmen were glad to be at Sentinel Dome. Ignoring the five feet of snow already on the ground, they built a base camp with a bed of ferns and cedar boughs.

Gulag Killers Inspire Patrice Chereau in Met Debut: Interview Tonight, the Metropolitan Opera presents the most depressing work in its fall season, “From the House of the Dead.”