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Review: Marital crisis leads to Irish misadventure in Colm Toibin's novel 'Long Island'
The Post and Courier· 4 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· 9 hours 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...
Ken Burns' speech was great, but why so negative about Yiddish?
The Forward· 7 days agoAt Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts last weekend, undergraduates welcomed the acclaimed...
Nobel laureate Paul Romer sees diminishing returns for AI, as FDI still 'killer app' for emerging...
South China Morning Post via Yahoo Finance· 6 days agoThe artificial intelligence (AI) industry is "going through a kind of a bubble right now" and could...
Poet John Burnside on drug addiction, his abusive father and winning the ‘British Nobel’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoJohn Burnside still cannot quite believe he is the winner of the 2023 David Cohen Prize for ...
Hemingway worked out, saw shows, drank on a visit to Las Vegas in ’59
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 3 days agoIn 1959, Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize winner for literature and arguably one of the greatest...
On Poetry: The spring garden through eyes fresh and wise
Traverse City Record-Eagle· 4 days agoThis is such an equivocal spring poem, which suits my mood entirely. In her Nobel lecture, she...
Ta-Nehisi Coates returns to nonfiction and explores the power of stories in upcoming ‘The Message’
theGrio via AOL· 4 days ago“Weaving together on-the-ground reportage, personal narrative, and insightful dives into literature...
Six non-fiction books you can read in a day
The Economist· 6 days agoResolved to read more? There may be no more rewarding genre than the short book
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 ...
