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Review: Marital crisis leads to Irish misadventure in Colm Toibin's novel 'Long Island'
The Post and Courier· 3 days agoIndeed, they have made it good enough to garner multiple Nobel Prizes in Literature. This...
Ken Burns' speech was great, but why so negative about Yiddish?
The Forward· 6 days agoAt Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts last weekend, undergraduates welcomed the acclaimed...
Poet John Burnside on drug addiction, his abusive father and winning the ‘British Nobel’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJohn Burnside still cannot quite believe he is the winner of the 2023 David Cohen Prize for ...
On Poetry: The spring garden through eyes fresh and wise
Traverse City Record-Eagle· 3 days agoThis is such an equivocal spring poem, which suits my mood entirely. In her Nobel lecture, she...
Six non-fiction books you can read in a day
The Economist· 5 days agoResolved to read more? There may be no more rewarding genre than the short book
Hemingway worked out, saw shows, drank on a visit to Las Vegas in ’59
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 2 days agoIn 1959, Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize winner for literature and arguably one of the greatest...
Books: Vital yet Vulnerable
UC Irvine Today· 4 days agoAt the end of class one day last fall, I asked students to reflect on the hostile reception Sula Peace endures upon her homecoming after many years in Toni Morrison’s 1973 novel Sula. Equally ...
Bob Dylan’s music tells a story of determination in ‘Girl from the North Country’ at the Smith...
Las Vegas Weekly· 7 days agoBob Dylan’s self-titled debut album came out 62 years ago. In that time, the music of the...
UT System initiative funds trauma research to impr | Newswise
Newswise· 14 hours agoMillions more suffer traumatic injuries, including wounds, broken bones, organ damage, and...
Midweek Musings | A practice for personal peace
Gloucester Daily Times· 22 hours agoDuring the last few months, I have been “hot on the trail” to find a home in the community I serve: Cape Ann. As days turned into weeks, I tried