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‘Ash’ Review: A Nobel Prize-Winner Confronts Environmental Collapse
New York Times· 18 hours agoThe critic A.J. Goldmann attended the premiere in Munich. Twenty years ago, when the Austrian writer...
American Academy In Rome Announces Winners Of The 2024-25 Rome Prize
Forbes· 5 days agoThe 2024-25 winners of the Rome Prize were announced today. Rome Prizes are given annually to...
Helen Vendler, a towering presence in poetry criticism, has died - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 6 days agoProfessor Vendler, whose careful consideration of poems helped some of her era’s best poets better...
Hay Festival 2024: our guide to this year’s highlights
The Independent US via AOL· 2 days agoIN FOCUS: Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David...
Paying a price to speak out, dissident writers help preserve freedoms | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell News Service· 6 days agoNarges Mohammedi, a journalist and women’s rights activist, smuggled her Nobel Peace Prize speech...
Netflix Is Betting Big on Latin America
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 5 days ago(Bloomberg) -- In the middle of a vast swath of farmland a windy six-hour drive from Bogota, Colombia, lies the heart of the biggest Netflix production...
In Search of America Aboard the Icon of the Seas
The Atlantic· 5 days agoIn January, the writer Gary Shteyngart spent a week of his life on the inaugural voyage of the Icon of the Seas, the largest cruise ship ever. Like many...
A Novelist Who Finds Inspiration in Germany’s Tortured History
New York Times· 4 days agoErpenbeck became a writer when her childhood and her country, the German Democratic Republic, disappeared, swallowed by the materialist West. Steven Erlanger first traveled to East Germany & ...
With public universities under threat, massive protests against austerity shake Argentina
WSB Radio· 6 days agoThe scale of the demonstration in downtown Buenos Aires appeared to exceed other massive...
Hooked On Books: Homes Of Famed Late Authors Are Open To The Public
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 days agoFor a diehard fan of the game played on the diamond, the ultimate pet project might be a pilgrimage, perhaps taken over a lifetime, to every one of the 30 Major League Baseball stadiums < ...