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- Ben Jelloun joins the Goncourt (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun, a well-known figure in both Moroccan and French cultural circles, took a step closer to the heart of the French literary establishment early last month when he was elected a member of the jury of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize and one of Europe's oldest.
- Humble beginnings, curiosity drive Pastides - The State
Humble beginnings, curiosity drive PastidesThe State, SC - 1 hour agoIf he had come from a more privileged background, the University of South Carolina’s newest president might have studied poetry. Instead Harris Pastides ...
- Watering the the Indus Valley - Daily Telegraph
The River Indus rises in Tibet and flows west through northern India before turning south through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. Like many rivers, it has often acted as a border, marking off Baluchistan from Sindh and the North West Frontier Province ...
- Rome: The Musical (Scoop.co.nz)
You are invited to a fun-packed evening of lust, greed and murder. Welcome to the Caesars! And a decadent Roman feast of power and intrigue.
- Mister Lonely (2007) (New York Times)
Diego Luna as a Michael Jackson impersonator in "Mister Lonely," directed by Harmony Korine.
- On Mustang Range, a Battle on Thinning the Herd - Herald Tribune
GERLACH, Nev. — Five mustangs pounded across the high desert recently, their dark manes and tails giving shape to the wind. Pursued by a helicopter, they ran into a corral — and into the center of the emotional debate over whether euthanasia ...
- Working Out the Kinks Technical Difficulties for a Jax Film ... - RedOrbit
Working Out the Kinks Technical Difficulties for a Jax Film ...RedOrbit, TX - 53 minutes agoThe venue has hosted everything from concerts, beer pong tournaments and burlesque shows to poetry slams and church services. Over the years, the coffee ...
- Edwin Morgan: A very modest magus - Scotsman
Edwin Morgan: A very modest magusScotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoOn the Poetry Archive website on which he can be heard reading his poems, he selects his favourite quote: Shelley's dictum that "poets are the mirrors of ...
- Global Psyche: Forever Mamma's Boy (Psychology Today)
Mammismo trumps machismo in Italy.
- PALMER'S ALMANAC: Memorial Day's roots in Civil War - Tuscaloosa News (subscription)
PALMER'S ALMANAC: Memorial Day's roots in Civil WarTuscaloosa News (subscription), AL - May 24, 2008But instead of bullets and cannon balls, this was a war of words — a poetry war. In 1867 New York attorney Francis Miles Finch read an article in the New ...
- Doctor of verse - Newindpress
Doctor of verseNewindpress, India - 1 hour agoBut unlike a good number of women whose lives revolve round home and office, Dr Husna finds time to pursue her love for writing. Apart from poetry she also ...
- The Big C: New again - Frederick News-Post
In January of 1994, four months after radiation for a squamous cell carcinoma to the right true vocal chord, I was a twig -- whittled down to a mere 102 pounds from a burned esophagus and scar tissue that barely allowed for normal swallowing. Looking ...
- MCLA presents evolving programming - North Adams Transcript
NORTH ADAMS -- Performances by singers, songwriters, dancers, poets and performance artists make up the season set for the debut of "MCLA Presents!," the latest incarnation of the former Smith House Series hosted by the college. "The programming has ...
- The dark side of globalisation - Economist
The dark side of globalisationEconomist, UK - 1 hour agoThe cliché that eastern Europe is crammed with highly educated boffins and poetry-spouting intellectuals has long been disproved. In the OECD’s latest PISA ...
- Sensational Russian Lionhearts! (Pravda)
Holland 1 Russia 3. What an amazing game of football, what a sensational victory for Russian football, for the players of this young, talented, disciplined and determined Russian team and what a shining medal on the chest of Guus Hiddink, the Dutchman who came to Russia to transform a team of spirited young and inexperienced boys into the most valliant lions this game has ever known.
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