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Situational Irony Can Be Funny, Tragic or Even Terrifying
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoIrony is one of those things that everybody seems know about but few seem able to precisely define. To make matters more complicated still, there are different kinds of irony (cosmic irony, dramatic irony, verbal irony and so forth).
In honoring Annie Ernaux, the literature Nobel Prize gets it exactly right
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAnnie Ernaux adresses the media outside her home in Cergy-Pontoise, outside Paris on Thursday, the...
‘The Pigeon Tunnel’ Review: Legendary Spy Novelist John le Carré Tells All in Errol Morris’ Crafty...
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThere’s a great irony at the heart of Errol Morris’ “The Pigeon Tunnel,” a biographical documentary...
Leo Varadkar’s Ireland is flirting with a new form of totalitarianism
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIrish author Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize on Sunday. His novel, Prophet Song, imagines an Ireland...
Author Cass Sunstein unlocks what it takes to be as big as The Beatles
Salon via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe Beatles Performing on Ed Sullivan Show Getty Images/ Bettmann A book with an intentionally...
Gerald Stern, prize-winning and lyrical poet, dies at 97
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGerald Stern, one of the country’s most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy...
The 40 Greatest Stand-Alone TV Episodes of All Time
Slate via Yahoo News· 8 months agoWhether we’re living in the age of Peak TV or Trough TV, one thing is clear: There’s too much TV. Thankfully, not every show has to be watched in its...
A Right-Wing Counter-Hegemony
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoTo speculate on what the future of American culture might look like in a second Trump presidency, we must consider the past: the formative New York and...
Marc Jacobs Is a Fragrance Hitmaker—and He’s Just Done It Again
Harper's Bazaar via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMarc Jacobs Is a Fragrance HitmakerDimitrios Kambouris - Getty Images Marc Jacobs Fragrances are a...
A bilingual California poet honors migrants — both the living and the dead
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIf all you knew about León Salvatierra were his résumé, you could be forgiven for assuming he’s living the dream life. He has a doctorate in Hispanic languages and literatures from UC Berkeley ...
