Publications: Essays - Literary

Year	Title	Author	Publisher	Issue	Description
2009	Art, and the Art of Teaching	Leigh Buchanan Bienen	TriQuarterly	Issue 134, pp. 7-28	Chicago is in the middle of a theatrical renaissance, \vith a large diverse community of actors, playwrights, designers and directors living here and making a living here. The simultaneous presence of Steppenwolf Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, the Goodman Theatre, the Court Theatre, Victory Gardens, Writers' Theatre, as well as Hypocrites, Greasy Joan, the House Theatre, and many, many others, is living proof of this. [read more]
2022	Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Life and a Life in the Theater	Leigh Buchanan Bienen	TriQuarterly	Issue 161	The recent biography of Emily Mann by Alexis Greene, Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater (Applause Books, 2021) is about being a specific woman, with a particular background, education, family and apprenticeships, about being a theater artist in a late age. [read more]
2018	hang	Leigh Bienen	Women in Theater Journal Online	July 25, 2018	Originally premiering in 2015 at London’s Royal Court Theater, 'hang' is a play which makes you laugh, or gasp, again, at human frailty, at human foolishness, and at the social and political arrangements and institutions which make us despair, like the weather in April in Chicago. [read more]
1994	He Was a Big Boy Still Is	Leigh Bienen	Ontario Review	Vol. 41, Article 15, pp. 38-47	A dramatic monologue by a White public defender, counseling the mother of a young, mentally-impaired Black defendant. [read more]
1965	New American Fiction	Leigh Buchanan Bienen	Indiana University Press	No. 20, pp. 46-51	Reviews of works by Louis Auchincloss, Saul Bellow, Robert Boles, Richard Brantigan, John Stewart Carter, H. E. F. Donohue, Seymour Epstein, Bruce Jay Friedman, Alison Lurie, Norman Mailer, Wallace Markfield, Hubert Selby, and Anne Tyler. [read more]
1998	Technician	Leigh Buchanan Bienen	TriQuarterly	Issue 104, Article 4, pp. 192-271	A short novel about an unemployed young man from Trenton, New Jersey, who through a series of circumstances applies for and gets a newly-created job of execution technician with the State of New Jersey. [read more]
2006	The Record Keepers	Leigh Buchanan Bienen	TriQuarterly	Issue 124, Intro, pp. 9-44	Introductory essay to a group of papers presented at a conference based on the Chicago Historical Homicide Project and Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930 website. [read more]
2019	Leigh Bienen Considers Adaptation in Chicago	Leigh Bienen	Women in Theater Journal Online	5-Jun	Reviews of two Chicago theatrical productions, 'The Adventures of Augie March' at The Court Theatre; and 'Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein' at Lookingglass Theatre. [read more]
2016	Women and Men in Robert Falls’ 2666	Leigh Bienen	HowRound Theatre Commons	October	A brief commentary on the theatrical work '2666'. [read more]
1970	Notes Found in a Klein Bottle	Leigh Buchanan Bienen	Princeton Alumni Weekly	Apr 21, 1970, pp. 17-20	In this short story about the glory days of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton in the 1920s, the author's assertion that this history of Fine Hall and the mathematics department was found in a Klein Bottle seems improbable. [read more]
1970	The Center of International Studies	Leigh Buchanan Bienen	Princeton Alumni Weekly	Mar 10, 1970, pp. 10-12	An informal history of the Princeton University Center of International Studies. [read more]
1971	The Young Scientists	Leigh Buchanan Bienen	Princeton Alumni Weekly	Vol. 1, pp. 8-11	A description of the work of four academics - Jason Morgan, Henry S. Horn, W. Todd Wipke, and Henry Arbarbanel - at Princteon University in 1971. [read more]
1971	Was Einstein Wrong	Leigh Buchanan Bienen	Princeton Alumni Weekly	April 21, 1971, pp. 10-11	Introductory essay to the work of Professor Robert H. Dicke in the Princeton Department of Physics from 1971. [read more]