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COVER STORY
Exile
Kurt Andersen and Congolese novelist Emmanuel Dongala
look at the lives and work of composers, writers, and musicians who left
their native homelands and sought refuge in the United States.
  Exiled
In Hollywood
In the 1930s and '40s, Hollywood became
a major destination for European composers fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe,
and they made Tinseltown an important musical center, not just for film
scores, but for contemporary classical music. Produced by Jeff Lunden.
(Pictured: Composer Franz Waxman)
 Go
to the Arnold Schoenberg website
Go
to a biography of Igor Stravinsky
Go
to Franz Waxman's official website
Quang
Bao
Twenty-four years after arriving in the U.S., a young
Vietnamese-American poet returned to Saigon with his father. Quang Bao
reflects on how the visit forced him to redefine his notion of home. Produced
by Jocelyn Gonzales.
Go
to Asian-American Writers Workshop
 Merita
Halili
Albania's national folk-singing treasure adjusts to
a new life in America. Produced by Eric Copage and Jocelyn Gonzales.
Go
to Balkan Cabaret's website
Go
to the Center for Traditional Music and Dance
Shirin
Neshat
The Iranian-born filmmaker who now lives in the U.S.
describes her art as a bridge between two worlds. Produced by Kerrie Hillman.
Go
to a portrait of Shirin Neshat
Go
to the Time Magazine photo essay
Go
to the Barbara Gladstone Gallery exhibit
 SPECIAL
GUEST
Emmanuel Dongala
Emmanuel Dongala was born in the Congo Republic and
educated in the United States and France. In 1997, civil war in the Congo
forced him to leave his job as Dean of Students and Chair of the Chemistry
Department at the University of Brazzaville. Two of his novels have recently
been translated to English: Little Boys Come From the Stars and The Fires
of Origins, and he is the president of the Congolese PEN Centre. Dongala
is now a visiting professor in chemistry at Simon's Rock College in Great
Barrington, Massachusetts.
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to the New York State Writers Institute
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Commentary
Summer's One-Week Wonders.
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Design
for the Real World
Design Critic Philip Nobel confesses a peculiar
passion for a household appliance-- The Miele vacuum cleaner.
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