The prize board called the playwright Bess Wohl’s work “a striking blend of comedy and sincerity.” By Michael Paulson “Liberation,” a funny, probing and powerful new play by Bess Wohl that explores ...

The play, written by Bess Wohl, ran on Broadway from October through February. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer Bess Wohl’s Liberation won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama Monday, in a big win for the ...

The Pulitzer Prize Board has just announced that Bess Wohl's Liberation has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Other finalists included: Nazareth Hassan's Bowl EP, and Talene Monahon's Meet the ...

This year’s winners also include Jill Lepore’s book on the constitution and Brian Goldstone’s on housing insecurity Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Pulitzer prize officials awarded ...

Feelings of glee and wonder not unlike walking into an arcade full of classic games befell me as I booted up Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, gawking at its wide and varied wonders. This ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney chose a Saab surveillance and control plane after vowing to reduce military spending with the United States. By Ian Austen When a remote Pacific village asked for help with ...

May 26, 2026 • In recent months, a number of fishermen in Ecuador say a U.S.-flagged vessel attacked them at sea and destroyed their boats. Their accounts come amid more than 50 U.S. maritime strikes ...

Haunted by the approach of another world war, the beloved fantasy author created a new story of Middle-earth that few people even knew about—until now The Radcliffe Camera, part of Oxford’s Bodleian ...

Acknowledge the past. Repair the present. Build a future of dignity and justice. The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, which operated between the fifteenth and late nineteenth centuries, ...