Drenka Willen Returns! Günter Grass’ Editor Hauled Back to HMH

Drenka Willen was just one of many individuals—including one woman seven months pregnant and another on maternity leave—to be hastily laid off last month from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt amid budget cuts. She is, however, the only one among them whom the severely troubled company’s CEO, Tony Lucki, has since asked to please come back.

Guilt Over Fascism Fuels the Spanish Allegory in ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’

I saw “Pan’s Labyrinth” the other night. It’s a great movie, period. That said, my friends and I differed on the thrust of the allegory, whether it is political or psychological.

The movie is set, very realistically, in a fascist outpost in the mountains in 1944. Franco’s troops are trying to root out the Read More