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The journalist reported for 30 years from Latin American countries where grave human rights abuses were being committed 17 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Includes reports from The Guardian and The Irish Times and ‘Chilean coup: 40 years ago I watched Pinochet crush a democratic dream,’ written by Mr O’Shaughnessy. Top…
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Jemma Stewart of Somerset, England: ‘I’m spending my first day ever in America at the Jack Kerouac grave. I didn’t study him in school. I found him by myself. I need this in my life.’ Photo: Fans leave tokens at Jack Kerouac’s gravesite in Lowell’s Edson Cemetery.PATRICIA HARRIS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE/PATRICIA HARRIS 12 March…
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There was clearly no crime, but there was punishment. It would be comical were it not so frightening. Photo: Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Heritage Images / Contributor 08 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Ukraine: Italian university backtracks after cancelling Dostoevsky course 02 March 2022 | Wanted in Milan First opera,…
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It seems like only yesterday we were worried about our local tyrants. Now Putin supersedes all. At least for now. Photo: Poet and Nobel Prize winner Czesław Miłosz speaking onstage to a crowd of students at Warsaw University, Poland, 1981. Photo by Keystone/Getty 10 OCTOBER 2017 HAWKINS BAY James Porteous 09 October 2017 |Jacob Mikanowski | Aeon…
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A new biography illuminates this most complex of political thinkers. 06 December 2021 | DANIEL BEN-AMI | Spiked For anyone interested in political ideas the first encounter with Hannah Arendt is likely to be bracing. Her books and articles tend to force readers to rethink deeply held and long-cherished beliefs. Even readers who end up…
The Quebecois author was revolutionary in so many ways, she remained a nomad and a devoted advocate for the Francophonie. 30 November 2021 | Staff | Canadian Press | With Additional material MONTREAL — The novelist, playwright and poet Marie-Claire Blais has passed away. She was 82 years old. Goodwin artists’ agency, which represented her,…
In 1913, The Times declared Cather’s “novel without a hero” to be “American in the best sense of the word.” Credit:Lily Snowden-Fine Sept. 14, 1913 | The New York Times The hero of the American novel very often starts on the farm, but he seldom stays there; instead, he uses it as a springboard from…
04 October 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Fans of the work of Anthony Burgess have grown weary of pointing out that he wrote quite a few books much better than Clockwork Orange (among them The Long Day Wanes Trilogy and his hilarious Enderby quartet.) Or that he wrote dozens of other novels and…
Photo: Gertrude Stein, 1934. Photographer: Carl Van Vechten An interesting, if somewhat overly critical look at Gertrude Stein and her The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas. Personally I have never understood why she is so misunderstood, or revered by modern-day feminists. 27 July 2021 | Cath Pound | BBC Culture Gertrude Stein, who died 75…
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(Image credit: Alamy) Since Sylvia Plath died in 1963, she’s been turned into a crudely tragic symbol. As she inspires more biographies, will we ever get closer to the ‘real’ Plath. 21 July 2021 | Lillian Crawford | BBC Culture When a female author dies by suicide, it defines her. From Virginia Woolf to Sarah Kane,…
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Photo: Title: Anti-Vietnam War placards surround Toronto’s war memorial in 1969. Photographer: Reg. Innell Date: April 6, 1969 28 July 2021 | The War | James Porteous | Excerpt from All of Me The scorched-earth images from Vietnam were so horrendous, so unimaginably brutal that it soon became clear to me that everything that would…
Photo: William F. Nolan and Ray Bradbury The American author wrote hundreds of stories in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and crime fiction genres as well as as a screenwriter. 18 July 2021 | Mike Glyer | File770 | With additional videos and wire stories By Jason V. Brock: Author, screenwriter, artist, and occasional actor William Francis Nolan passed away without pain…
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