Last Sunday, I was back in the North Side neighborhood for Lifeline Theatre’s “Cat’s Cradle,” an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical 1963 novel about a fictional co-creator of the ...

Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel satirizes the Cold War arms race and plays on societal anxiety over military annihilation and increased militarization in the world.

Cat’s Cradle, Lifeline Theatre. Kurt Vonnegut’s darkly funny 1963 novel, about a socially inept scientist who inadvertently destroys the world, has not aged well. Though the ideas are still ...

Vonnegut's breakthrough to millions of readers came in 1963, with his fourth novel, Cat's Cradle — about a secret military experiment, called "Ice Nine," that leads to the destruction of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In books such as “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle,” and “Hocus Pocus,” Kurt Vonnegut mixed the bitter and funny with a touch of the profound. Vonnegut, regarded ...

Kurt Vonnegut’s major apocalyptic trio, "Cat’s Cradle," "Slapstick," and "Galápagos," prompt broad global, national, and species-level thinking about environmental issues through dramatic and ...

NEW YORK - Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Cat’s ...

Cat’s Cradle is also the title of a novel by Kurt Vonnegut that I read shortly after it was published in 1963. Here, the cat’s cradle was something very complicated that suddenly and irreversibly ...

But Kurt Vonnegut, author of "Slaughterhouse Five" and "Cat's Cradle," took some time from his schedule to be interviewed by phone and talk about his writing, among other things.

Kurt Vonnegut, wrote Jay McInerney in 1991, "is a satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion, a cynic who wants to believe." This feature collects the original New York Times reviews ...

FX boss John Landgraf said at the network's virtual summer 2021 TCA today that Fargo creator Noah Hawley's adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat Cradle officially is not happening at the network.

Kurt Vonnegut, wrote Jay McInerney in 1991, "is a satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion, a cynic who wants to believe." This feature collects the original New York Times reviews ...