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"Liberation," which explores sexuality and the place of women in society in the 1970s, was named Best Play after winning a Pulitzer Prize in May.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Having just nabbed the Pulitzer Prize, Bess Wohl’s where-did-the-feminist-movement-go-wrong? play “Liberation” seems the likely winner, and a worthy one, despite its shaggy and digressive structure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Gustavo Arellano weighs in on how the elections might play out within the Latino community.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
Despite an accomplished career as a journalist—I’d led a team at The Wall Street Journal to a Pulitzer Prize in 1997—I was months behind on a freelance assignment.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
Four decades later, Samuel Eliot Morison, twice a Pulitzer Prize ‘According to Joseph Conrad, the violence was of culinary origin. “
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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