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- Ian Rankin: 'This is my Ocean's Eleven' (Independent)
On the day that I discuss with Ian Rankin his new novel about art, risk and crime, Damien Hirst pulls off what sceptics might consider the steal of the century so far. "The timing is exemplary," chuckles the writer in the top-floor lounge of a West End hotel, fresh off a train from Edinburgh but as razor-witted and clued-up as ever. As venerable banking houses founder, their assets so much ...
- Book of a lifetime: The Assemblies, By Al-Hariri of Basra - Independent
Book of a lifetime: The Assemblies, By Al-Hariri of BasraIndependent, UK - 18 hours agoIt is more about use of language and word-play, and is designed to teach the rules of grammar, rhetoric and poetry. That is why it has been the subject of ...
- Nonfiction Reviews - Publishers Weekly
Nonfiction ReviewsPublishers Weekly, NY - Sep 7, 2008The first memoir section of the book simply traces her day-to-day life of cooking, translating poetry, going to market and visiting friends, mostly for long ...
- Blackbird delivers nuance of Pinter - The Province
Blackbird delivers nuance of PinterThe Province, Canada - 21 minutes agoBut in the 1950s and '60s Pinter took English working-class speech and transformed it into a bleak poetry. Below the banal surfaces of his dark comedies lay ...
- The new wave of French urban fiction - Guardian Unlimited
Between mid-August and late October, the French publishing industry goes into overdrive. The current rentrée littéraire (named after la rentrée scolaire - the beginning of the school year) has seen fewer novels hitting the shelves but their ...
- Hypocrisy, human rights and the Beijing games - Green Left Weekly
Hypocrisy, human rights and the Beijing gamesGreen Left Weekly, Australia - 5 hours agoUyrghur poets have even been charged with “spiritual terrorism†for their work. These charges can bring the death sentence. East Turkestan is the only place ...
- Indian Poet now has Five Poetry Records with Limca Book of Records - Webnewswire.com
Indian Poet now has Five Poetry Records with Limca Book of RecordsWebnewswire.com, India - 5 hours agoParekh has composed thousands of poems on Global topics such as God, Anti Terror, World Peace, Love, Aids, Friendship, Humanity, Blindness, Global warming, ...
- Celebrate Family Day at Longfellow Historic Site - Abington Mariner
The New England Poet Club presents Family Day at Longfellow National Historic Site, including poetry readings and an awards ceremony for student poets, Sunday, Sept. 14, at 2 p.m. on the front lawn at the Longfellow National Historic Site at 105 ...
- The Oprah effect - Isthmus
The Oprah effectIsthmus, WI - 25 minutes agoAn electrifying spoken-word program track features four-time national poetry slam champion Patricia Smith, the Midwest Youth Slam All-Stars, the UW's First ...
- Merthell Gleave - Desert Valley Times
Merthell GleaveDesert Valley Times, UT - 6 hours agoHe continued to voice his concerns about individual rights and freedoms as seen in his poetry and letters to the President of the United States of America. ...
- Challenge yourself - MU The Parthenon (subscription)
Challenge yourselfMU The Parthenon (subscription), WV - 3 hours agoIt is sad that we still live in a time where writers of novels, short stories and poetry cannot always get their voices heard because of their views. ...
- Berkeley mothers start Farsi-immersion preschool - Oakland Tribune
Berkeley mothers start Farsi-immersion preschoolOakland Tribune, CA - 4 hours agoNow, Modabber wants her two young sons, Kian and Manu, to discover what she has grown to love about traditional Iranian culture  its poetry, ...
- Firewood and poetry - Orleans Star
Firewood and poetryOrleans Star, Canada - 22 hours ago... there's now sunlight and air and room for new growth. Waxing poetic, you say? Well, maybe so, but poetry's as good a thing as a warm house.
- ‘Why can’t we play together?’ - Malta Today
‘Why can’t we play together?’Malta Today, Malta - 1 hour agoHis poetry got him into trouble from a very early age. As a Palestinian boy living under Israeli military rule from 1948 to 1986 he became aware that he, ...
- H2O Jam is back, and in a bigger venue (The Record)
One of the area's most vital outlets for artistic expression is back after a two-year hiatus.
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