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- Louise Erdrich: Secrets in the Indian file (Independent)
Of all the fictional hamlets American writers have planted, from William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, the most complex, luminous place yet might be a little town called Argus, North Dakota. Since she first introduced the town in Love Medicine (1984), Louise Erdrich has gone back to it continually, conjuring the reservation it abuts, the love affairs which ...
- Pak to clip ISI’s wings, says PML (Nawaz) - Tribune
Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) joint secretary and former Pakistan Legislative Assembly member Peer Ghulam Farid has said that the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) had had a free run so far, but those days are over. The agency, which earlier was ...
- Moscow Museum of Modern Art Presents Citizens! Please Mind Yourselves! Dmitry A. Prigov (Art Daily)
D.A. Prigov - Malevich (Russian Painting Series). 1980's-2000's. 18.2×24.5 cm. MOSCOW.- The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents Citizens! Please Mind Yourselves! Dmitry A. Prigov (1940-2007) - Works on paper, installations, books, performance, opera, and declamation, on view through June 15, 2008.
- Fielding the best summer reads (Denver Post)
Summer's here and the time is right ... for reading about baseball.
- Fun, freedom let loose at lit club - NYU Washington Square News
Fun, freedom let loose at lit clubNYU Washington Square News, NY - 1 hour ago"There's got to be a startling, spontaneous quality to poetry and all art, I think," said Headless Society director Rachel Broderick, at the reading of the ...
- Their destiny lies in camps - GulfNews
Their destiny lies in campsGulfNews, United Arab Emirates - 46 minutes agoBetween spontaneous and sporadic bursts of poetry recitation, Antouk shares anecdotes from his youth as an active militia man for nine years in George ...
- “The Upright Man Is Safe†- New Haven Independent
“The Upright Man Is Safeâ€New Haven Independent, USA - 1 hour agoNuti said that he chose the poem over another one, by Cicero, that has a military theme. Nuti, who is a junior in the Health Science program at Career, ...
- Ipswich’s Hanwell a true Special Olympics champion (Ipswich Chronicle)
Alyssa Hanwell loves to roller skate — in competition, only, though. The longtime Special Olympics competitor typically puts away the wheels when the training season and state Special Olympics are past. “I don’t go out and roller skate on my own,†says the 25-year-old 2002 graduate of Ipswich High School.
- Ellyce Field: Fun family picks for the week (Detroit News)
Have some live culture, kiddie-style this week. Check out the all-kid cast in Stagecrafters' take on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" at the Baldwin Theatre, singer, poet and storyteller Bill Harley at For Mar Nature Preserve and Arboretum or downtown Birmingham's Summer in the City performance.
- VANISHING VOICES CRUELLY-ABSENT CROAKS! (Deccan Herald)
What does a little boy do when he wakes up one morning to find that his voice has disappeared altogether? What does a little frog do when he just doesn’t seem to be able to croak? When no amount of help from his worried mother can coax anything other than a discordant ‘Cronk’ out of him.
- Political journalist leaves behind bilingual legacy (Montreal Gazette)
Dominique Clift was one of the country's best informed political journalists, an incisive newspaper columnist who wrote as well in English as he did in French.
- Poem of the week: Fine Knacks for Ladies - guardian.co.uk
Poem of the week: Fine Knacks for Ladiesguardian.co.uk, UK - 25 minutes agoI was reminded of its existence by an essay by Clive Wilmer, published in the latest issue of that excellent poetry journal, PN Review, "Thom Gunn, ...
- Present at the creation - Boston Globe
Amid the ongoing debate about the Founding Fathers - Is John Adams still underrated? Was Thomas Jefferson an unforgivable hypocrite? - one proposition recurs in the annual crop of books timed for publication around the Fourth of July. This was a ...
- Matthew McConaughey has a son; Paris Hilton has an idea for a scary TV ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Matthew McConaughey's on diaper duty. Matthew McConaughey's going to be a little busy to do much surfing and partying for a while. The actor and his girlfriend, Camila Alves, welcomed a son on Monday night. The baby has yet to be named, and weighs in ...
- Music Review: 12 Ways to Live - IIT Tech News
Music Review: 12 Ways to LiveIIT Tech News, IL - 1 hour agoThere is a song of a break-up… in friendship (7th & A). Certainly, these are stories from her own life. And to add to this there are little touches which ...
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