Comments on black holes in string theory

A very brief review is given of some of the developments leading to our current understanding of black holes in string theory. This is followed by a discussion of two possible misconceptions in this subject-one involving the stability of small black holes and the ether involving scale radius duality. Finally, I describe some recent results concerning quasinormal modes of black holes in anti-de Sitter spacetime, and their implications for strongly coupled conformal field theories (in Various dimensions).