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- Hammershoi's decade of brilliance, before banality set in (International Herald Tribune)
For 10 dazzling years, the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi seemed possessed by some inner vision that made him see the world around him through a luminous haze. Some of his poetic portraits and interiors are now on view at the Royal Academy until Sept. 7.
- Kudryavtseva's upset over Sharapova motivated by disliked 'tuxedo ... - Globe and Mail
Kudryavtseva's upset over Sharapova motivated by disliked 'tuxedo ...Globe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoThere was poetry in Tipsarevic's description of his postmatch euphoria. "The best emotion and pride you feel is in the locker room, when you come back and ...
- Broken: By Karin Fossum (Independent)
Ever since the novel began, authors have been in intermittent dispute with their characters. Karin Fossum is a Norwegian writer of fiction, poetry and short stories. A great player with genre, she opens this novel with a midnight encounter between the author and the main character. Alvar Eide appears in Fossum's bedroom, disrupts her sleep, and ousts her intended subject by revealing too much, ...
- Spiritual quest - Times Daily
Keith Barkett is seen during oryoko, or breakfast, at Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, N.Y. Dozens of religious retreats are nestled in the Catskill Mountains and Hudson Valley of upstate New York, many open to visitors seeking quiet getaways ...
- New US Release - Variety
New US ReleaseVariety, CA - 17 hours agoKoenig (Kim Coates) and mother to sensitive, poetry-scribbling Oskar (Jonathan Scarfe). Hannah looks as uncomfortable as might be expected, especially when ...
- Competition will champion the work of autistic artists - Worcester News
Competition will champion the work of autistic artistsWorcester News, UK - 3 hours agoThere are three categories in the creativity competition, which is open to all adults with autism or Asperger syndrome aged 18 and over; poetry or prose up ...
- Papers of acclaimed poet Anne Spencer moved from Lynchburg to UVA (WSLS Newschannel 10 Roanoke)
Box by box, pieces of history are rolled out of Anne Spencer’s home in Lynchburg. The renowned Harlem Reanaissance poet died in 1975, leaving behind pictures, personal notes and of course, poetry. Now they will head to UVA.
- "Baboons Are Simply Too Small for Leopard Bait" - Slate
Last week, in the provincial Russian city of Saratov, a judge heard final arguments in the case of writer Edward Limonov. Though Limonov stands accused of plotting to invade a large central Asian country, Kazakhstan, the trial has received zero ...
- Best books … chosen by Siri Hustvedt - The Week Daily
Best books … chosen by Siri HustvedtThe Week Daily - 1 hour agoDickinson’s poetry is difficult, paradoxical, painful, and joyous. Reading it makes you feel as if you are wandering around in the dense terrain of a human ...
- ASK MICK LASALLE, Chronicle Movie Critic (San Francisco Chronicle)
Dear Mick LaSalle: What has become of Meg Ryan? So very popular and with so many movies during the 1990s, she seems to have disappeared completely. Kent Semper, Oakland Dear Kent Semper: Meg Ryan had the bad taste to turn 40 in 2001, and she compounded that...
- Pakistan mourns poet of love and defiance (Gulf Times)
LAHORE: Ahmed Faraz, Pakistan’s much loved poet, died in Islamabad on Monday night after a long struggle with a host of ailments, having taken ill in the first week of July while on a visit to the United States. He was 77.
- DJ samples sights, sounds of Antarctica - Rocky Mountain News
DJ samples sights, sounds of AntarcticaRocky Mountain News, CO - 56 minutes agoThe landscape, really, is a form of poetry." Miller stressed that Terra Nova is not merely another treatise on global warming. "There is change going on ...
- Book festival - a first for town - Pocklington Post
Book festival - a first for townPocklington Post, UK - 2 hours agoFor adults, a nine-mile walk and a talk about William Wilberforce are on the agenda, along with a poetry evening, a big book quiz and a performance by The ...
- Joyce Carol Oates gets wild with her latest (Courier-Post)
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. "My Sister, My Love," her 37th, is one of the wildest.
- Ladies, thank heaven for younger men - Times Online
Ladies, thank heaven for younger menTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoMen as diverse as a member of the House of Lords, an aged rock singer, a novelist and a Third World entrepreneur who writes poetry - all dinner companions ...
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