Leon Padura: Cuba has hit rock bottom
“It’s like another crest of a long crisis.… We’ve hit rock bottom and the worst thing is that, if at other times there
Why is Hollywood on Strike? It is Simple
If you ever watched shows like ‘Criminal Minds’ and ‘Friends’ on network TV, you helped actors and writers put food on their tables.
Jack Kerouac’s hometown celebrates the centennial of his birth
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
John Milton sells the copyright to Paradise Lost for £10 (1667)
John Milton was an anarchist, didn’t believe in the Trinity and wrote pamphlets about the merits of divorce, and wrote Paradise Lost “I
We Could Use a Shelby Foote Today
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Watch: TCM Remembers (2021)
A yearly tradition, TCM Remembers celebrates the life and work of bright lights that will never fade. 22 December 2021 | James Porteous
Making sense of Hannah Arendt
A new biography illuminates this most complex of political thinkers. 06 December 2021 | DANIEL BEN-AMI | Spiked For anyone interested in political
Review: ‘O Pioneers!’ by Willa Cather (1913)
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.
Life After Loneliness: Learning how to Build a New Life for Yourself
After her second divorce, author Saima Mir finally realised that no one was coming to rescue her and she began to build a
Watch: Anthony Burgess (documentary)
04 October 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Fans of the work of Anthony Burgess have grown weary of pointing out that
Dorothy Parker Finally Gets a Final Resting Place, 54 Years Late
Photo: Cropped – David Dee Delgado for The New York Times (original below) | With additional photos, quotes and video The beloved author
Gertrude Stein’s memoir of the ‘lost generation’
Photo: Gertrude Stein, 1934. Photographer: Carl Van Vechten An interesting, if somewhat overly critical look at Gertrude Stein and her The Autobiography of