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- Ben Jelloun joins the Goncourt (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun, a well-known figure in both Moroccan and French cultural circles, took a step closer to the heart of the French literary establishment early last month when he was elected a member of the jury of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize and one of Europe's oldest.
- Past Shock (The New Yorker)
In the new Batman film, “The Dark Knight,” many things go boom. Cars explode, jails and hospitals are blown up, bombs are put in people’s mouths and sewn into their stomachs. There’s a chase scene in which cars pile up and climb over other cars, and a truck gets lassoed . . .
- Watering the the Indus Valley - Daily Telegraph
The River Indus rises in Tibet and flows west through northern India before turning south through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. Like many rivers, it has often acted as a border, marking off Baluchistan from Sindh and the North West Frontier Province ...
- Rome: The Musical (Scoop.co.nz)
You are invited to a fun-packed evening of lust, greed and murder. Welcome to the Caesars! And a decadent Roman feast of power and intrigue.
- 'Sleeping It Off in Rapid City' by August Kleinzahler (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
August Kleinzahler fam-ously began one of his essays with this bit of sly revelation, "It was the dog who raised me." ...
- Global Gorecaster's 10-year challenge - WorldNetDaily
There is a new kind of 10-year challenge that we must will into reality. This is a challenge that is of utmost importance – a clarion call to all concerned citizens – and here it is: Within 10 years, the world must dedicate itself to completely ...
- Working Out the Kinks Technical Difficulties for a Jax Film ... - RedOrbit
Working Out the Kinks Technical Difficulties for a Jax Film ...RedOrbit, TX - 53 minutes agoThe venue has hosted everything from concerts, beer pong tournaments and burlesque shows to poetry slams and church services. Over the years, the coffee ...
- Edwin Morgan: A very modest magus - Scotsman
Edwin Morgan: A very modest magusScotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoOn the Poetry Archive website on which he can be heard reading his poems, he selects his favourite quote: Shelley's dictum that "poets are the mirrors of ...
- Global Psyche: Forever Mamma's Boy (Psychology Today)
Mammismo trumps machismo in Italy.
- PALMER'S ALMANAC: Memorial Day's roots in Civil War - Tuscaloosa News (subscription)
PALMER'S ALMANAC: Memorial Day's roots in Civil WarTuscaloosa News (subscription), AL - May 24, 2008But instead of bullets and cannon balls, this was a war of words — a poetry war. In 1867 New York attorney Francis Miles Finch read an article in the New ...
- Doctor of verse - Newindpress
Doctor of verseNewindpress, India - 1 hour agoBut unlike a good number of women whose lives revolve round home and office, Dr Husna finds time to pursue her love for writing. Apart from poetry she also ...
- The Big C: New again - Frederick News-Post
In January of 1994, four months after radiation for a squamous cell carcinoma to the right true vocal chord, I was a twig -- whittled down to a mere 102 pounds from a burned esophagus and scar tissue that barely allowed for normal swallowing. Looking ...
- MCLA presents evolving programming - North Adams Transcript
NORTH ADAMS -- Performances by singers, songwriters, dancers, poets and performance artists make up the season set for the debut of "MCLA Presents!," the latest incarnation of the former Smith House Series hosted by the college. "The programming has ...
- The dark side of globalisation - Economist
The dark side of globalisationEconomist, UK - 1 hour agoThe cliché that eastern Europe is crammed with highly educated boffins and poetry-spouting intellectuals has long been disproved. In the OECD’s latest PISA ...
- Cleveland Arts Prize awards honor creativity in its many forms - Cleveland Plain Dealer
When students visit Rose Iron Works and ask Melvin Rose to describe his style as a metalwork designer, Rose tells them, "Our style, my style, is what-does-the-customer-want." Rose is the winner of a lifetime achievement award from the Cleveland Arts ...
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