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American Academy In Rome Announces Winners Of The 2024-25 Rome Prize
Forbes· 2 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· 3 days agoProfessor Vendler, whose careful consideration of poems helped some of her era’s best poets better...
There's a revolution happening in children's publishing—you can thank the book bans
Fast Company Magazine· 5 days agoNikkolas Smith knows a thing or two about book bans. The illustrator has created five picture books...
A Novelist Who Finds Inspiration in Germany’s Tortured History
New York Times· 14 hours 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 & ...
Paying a price to speak out, dissident writers help preserve freedoms | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell News Service· 3 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· 2 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...
3 new studies show weight loss isn't all about diet and exercise
KSL Salt Lake City· 4 days agoThis story is sponsored by Health Utah. It takes an estimated 17 years for discoveries from...
In Search of America Aboard the Icon of the Seas
The Atlantic· 2 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...
Five books by Maryse Condé to introduce you to the award-winning Guadeloupian writer
The Conversation· 18 hours agoTake her bestselling pair of historical novels Segu (1984) and The Children of Segu (1985). Set in an early 19th-century royal court in what is now Mali ...
In Argentina, the government's austerity plan hits universities and provokes student protests
ABC News· 3 days agoProfessors taught 200-person lectures without microphones or projectors because the public...