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Kurt Vonnegut is credited with some of the greatest sci-fi novels of all time: Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, Jailbird, ...
You are leafing (or scrolling) through The Wall Street Journal and you notice the name Kurt Vonnegut in a book review. You remember liking something of his. Maybe it was a novel: “Breakfast of ...
Naturally, Vonnegut has a story for such a time. “Harrison Bergeron” is the anti-equity tale — it truly has no equal. In fact, the editors of NR loved “Bergeron” so much in the 1960s ...
If you have an old landline telephone in Michigan, one of many outdated regulations requires the phone company to print and deliver a “white pages” directory to your house. In his 1961 short story ...
Attorneys representing students from the Shawnee Mission district say the story “Harrison Bergeron” shows that a world of forced equality ... “to see someone is quoting Kurt Vonnegut. ...
Clocking in at just 25 minutes, Chandler Tuttle's film 2081 captures the spare brutality of Kurt Vonnegut's short story "Harrison Bergeron," a tale about a world in which, thanks to "the 211th ...