Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin. | Random house In the context of the recent escalation of violence in the Middle East and Ireland’s condemnation of Israel’s de facto annexation policy, Apeirogon by Colum McCann is more than ever worth reading. Unlike a pentagon, an apeirogon has an infinite number of sides or aspects. The...
Read MorePhoto: George Charles Beresford, Public Domain, via Wikimedia CommonsThis article may contain affiliate links. If you make a purchase, My Modern Met may earn an affiliate commission. Please read our disclosure for more information. One of the most famous writers of the 20th century, Virginia Woolf was an incredible literary figure who was far...
Read MoreAn art exhibit depicting America’s first slaves will open on June 17 around the space where a statue of Francis Scott Key was knocked down by racial justice protesters in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, according to Reuters. The “Monumental Reckoning†exhibition which features 350 black steel sculptures 4 feet high will be unveiled...
Read MoreOn one level, the poem is a description of a day in the circus: coming to town, pitching the tents, rehearsing, playing and shutting down at night, getting up at dawn to start another day of travel. But on a metaphorical level, the poem tells the story of Genesis, in which the circus recreates...
Read More100 years ago, for the second week of June 1921, from the pages of the Greeley Tribune-Republican newspaper. The main article on the newspaper’s front page concerned the “race war” in Tulsa, Oklahoma: “Ten blocks of houses have been set on fire and 75 (Blacks) are in ashes.” The investigation is continuing. “ “Go...
Read MoreIn the mid-1970s, a young George Pérez was paired with Mr. Kraft on Man-Wolf. “We were both working on this show that nobody really cared about, and Dave just took the ball and ran with it,” Pérez said in a phone interview. “He took the character to wobbly territory: outer space, other dimensions, floating...
Read More“No one is going to mythologize my life,” playwright and filmmaker Kathleen Collins told a group of film students at Howard University in 1984. “No one is going to deny me the right to explore my life experiences as normal experiences.” Collins’ insistence on portraying the banality of African American women’s lives rather than...
Read MoreSubscribe: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Stapler | How to listen Jake Bonner, the protagonist of “The Plot” by Jean Hanff Korelitz, is writing a novel based on someone else’s idea. The book becomes a big hit, but Jake struggles to appreciate it because he is afraid of getting caught. In this week’s podcast,...
Read MoreWho was Alka Raghuvanshi? Artist, art critic and writer Raghuvanshi died on the afternoon of May 26. The news of the death of Dr Alka Raghuvanshi was shared by his friends via social networks. According to Raghuvanshi’s friends, she had been suffering from pneumonia for three months. Unfortunately, Alka Raghuvanshi, my first wife, my...
Read MoreEric Carle, author and artist of many classic children’s picture books, including The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has died at the age of 91. Eric Carle, the famous author and illustrator of more than 70 picture books published over the past five decades, has passed away. Carle was 91 when he died on Sunday May...
Read MoreJoin the Corsicana Artist & Writer Residence from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday May 29 for its last open day of the season. Meet artists Raychael Stine from Albuquerque, NM, Rehab El Sadek from Austin, and Jake Davidson from Brooklyn, New York. Visit the new Storefront and Studio Samuels which open in...
Read MoreWhen Trelani Michelle writes, she does her best to write to her people. That’s why she’s so close. That’s why she’s good. A friend and former mentor liked to tell him: “I don’t convince. I transmit. And that’s the best way to sum up Michelle as a writer: a people carrier; a voice not...
Read MoreIn the summer of 1948, Shirley Jackson wrote two short stories in quick succession: her controversial classic “The Lottery” and the underrated “The Summer People”. Even more astonishing is that she finishes the first in a morning of work. “This, as any story writer can tell you, is not a usual thing,” Jackson later...
Read MoreTHE NERVOUS SYSTEM By Lina Meruane Translated by Megan McDowell There are verses in Mahmoud Darwish’s “Muralâ€, one of the last works of the great Palestinian poet, which perfectly describes the strange disorientation of collective exile and disappearance. To capture the layers of such loss, Darwish nests one verse within another like Russian dolls,...
Read MoreNEW YORK, May 18, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Far from home, in a picturesque Costa Rican fishing village, a man glimpses the heart of the book he struggled to write in the captivating stories of a young woman. Told by a novelist forced to earn a living as an exterminator, STRANGE LOVE (Open...
Read MoreChristos Mouzeviris was born in December 1977 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Although his artistic inclination was evident from an early age and he always showed interest in an artistic career, he did not receive the support he would need to engage professionally in the arts in Greece. He studied tourism and until today he has...
Read MoreFor author Kati Marton, the Hamptons have been a safe haven for many years, especially in Southampton. She and her husband, diplomat Richard C. Holbrooke, spent many weekends at their waterfront cottage just north of the village center, swimming, kayaking, biking, or camping. were relaxing by the fire. Ms Marton has also written three...
Read MoreThis is the second article in “The Context” – a bimonthly archival story series – providing our readers with useful insight into some of the most important (or funniest!) Topics in the news today. hui. We hope you enjoy it. John Swartzwelder is not a household name, which is partly his fault. The old...
Read MoreREACTOR on, fair use Raymond Chandler, with Dashiell Hammett before him and Ross Macdonald after, made a surprising change in the detective story. As Chandler said, he took the novel away from those who commit murders with “hand-forged dueling guns, curare, and tropical fish” and returned it to the “kind of people who commit...
Read MoreThe scenario starts off quite simply: A couple is at the end of dinner. The conversation ends, the wine almost finished. After a silence, the man says he wants to play a game. Enter artificial intelligence. Calamity AI Cinematic Date NightThe future of media15 digital media companies leaving their mark on the entertainment industry...
Read MoreA former manager of legendary Vancouver punk band DOA has died aged 71. News of Ken Lester’s passing came in an article by musician and painter Jean Smith on his Facebook page. Smith is a member of the Vancouver group Mecca Normal with Lester’s brother David. DOA hired Lester in 1979 after the band’s...
Read MoreThrough ANI NANDIGRAM: Mamata Banerjee, the indomitable fighter dressed in a white sari, is a writer, poet and painter who ended the decades-long rule of the Left Front but who, after two successive terms, faces a major challenge for his political career. Striving to prove that “Bangla nijer meyekei chaye” (Bengal wants her own...
Read MoreMamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal and Head of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), greets supporters during a road show ahead of the final phase of the Indian general elections in Kolkata, India on May 16, 2019. REUTERS / Rupak From Chowdhuri / Files Nandigram (West Bengal) April 1: Mamata Banerjee, the indomitable fighter...
Read MoreHistorian and author Christopher Lee has died aged 79 after contracting coronavirus. ee, widely known as the author of the BBC’s This Sceptred Isle radio series, died at his home in Sussex surrounded by his wife and two daughters. Over a six-decade career he worked overseas as a defense and foreign affairs correspondent and...
Read MoreJim Crow Hell No (2021) Open Source Gallery courtesy Over the past four years, America has had a good look at its cracked mirror: The President of the United States has called white supremacists “good people” who should “steer clear”, just in case. (insert ethnic insult / demeaning political characterization / genre insult here)...
Read MorePhoto credit: Paul Costello; Courtesy of the Julia Reed Estate “Hearst Magazines and Verizon Media may earn commissions or income on certain articles through the links below.” Author, design enthusiast and long-time Decor HER contributor Julia Reed, who died last August at the age of 59, was well known for entertaining her readers and...
Read Moreremember that Seinfeld episode where Kramer collected skeletons and restored them to museum quality by washing the bones in Jerry’s dishwasher so he could sell them? No? Maybe it’s because it never happened. Writer, director and television producer Jeff Schaffer ’91 and his friends Alec Berg ’91 and David Mandel ’92 were writing for...
Read MoreBreadcrumb Links Local News Dawson was well known to longtime Gazette readers as a cartoon illustrator for the All Our Yesterdays column written by Edgar Andrew Collard. Author of the article: Jason magder • Montreal Gazette Release date : January 18, 2021 • January 18, 2021 • 3 minutes to read • Join the...
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