Endgame, as performed at the now- defunct Shimer College in 2009. The Author saw a different performance.

I am living proof that you can go far in life without seeing a Beckett play.

There is a list called “Writers Who Are Not Funny in the Traditional or Indeed Any Other Sense, But Some People Nevertheless Insist on Participating in the Fiction that They Are ‘Actually Hilarious,’ ” and it feels to me that Beckett is at the top of that list.

What ‘Woke’ Means, As Explained by Hugh Grant and Ashley Graham

Two scandals explain it all

India’s Urban Leopards

Big cats share space with humans in a Mumbai forest

Who Won Nigeria’s Chaotic Presidential Election?

Questions remain