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Review: Marital crisis leads to Irish misadventure in Colm Toibin's novel 'Long Island'
The Post and Courier· 6 days agoIndeed, they have made it good enough to garner multiple Nobel Prizes in Literature. This...
Author Zhadan joins Ukraine's National Guard
Kyiv Independent via Yahoo News· 2 days ago"I joined the 13th Brigade of the National Guard 'Charter.' I am undergoing training. I serve Ukrainian people," Serhiy Zhadan wrote on Facebook, adding...
On Poetry: The spring garden through eyes fresh and wise
Traverse City Record-Eagle· 6 days agoThis is such an equivocal spring poem, which suits my mood entirely. In her Nobel lecture, she...
Seven memoirs help explain Europe past and present
The Economist· 17 hours agoA GOOD MEMOIR tells you a lot about a person, and even more about the times they lived in. Europe’s Sturm und Drang is like a recurring character in the...
How Liberals Talk About Children
The New Yorker· 22 hours agoLater, and in much the same way, I followed debates about anti-natalism spurred by the work of the South African philosopher David Benatar, who argues, in a seeming perversion of Buddhist thought ...
Hemingway worked out, saw shows, drank on a visit to Las Vegas in ’59
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 5 days agoIn 1959, Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize winner for literature and arguably one of the greatest...
Books: Vital yet Vulnerable
UC Irvine Today· 6 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 ...
H. Bruce Franklin, Scholar Who Embraced Radical Politics, Dies at 90
New York Times· 15 hours agoA cultural historian, he was fired by Stanford University in 1972 over an anti-Vietnam War speech...
Midweek Musings | A practice for personal peace
Gloucester Daily Times· 3 days 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
UT System initiative funds trauma research to impr | Newswise
Newswise· 3 days agoMillions more suffer traumatic injuries, including wounds, broken bones, organ damage, and...