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Obituary: Hayden Carruth

One of American poetry's most distinctive voices, the writer and critic Hayden Carruth, has died aged 87. He survived two suicide attempts, and lived for many years in rural Vermont, where through working the land he found an...

Sisifo

Brand: Sisito Owner: First Used: 2007 Published: 02 August 2007 Notes: In Greek mythology Sisyphus was a king punished in the underworld by being cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill throughout eternity. Sisifo (Sisyphus in...

'Writ on water': Traitors to the spirit and cause of student activism

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Mon Oct 6, 2008 4:02 AM EDT It’s a common occurrence, and sad for this country and its poor and marginalized. But the new chief of the Philippine National Police was doing precisely that last week...

Longtime editor of literary journal dies at 99

Charlotte Kohler, who helped shape the path of literature as the longtime editor of the small but influential Virginia Quarterly Review, died Sept. 15 of congestive heart failure at her home in Charlottesville, Va. She died one...

Theatre review: Caligula, Project, Dublin

"You're being absurd," Emperor Caligula is told, and how could he not be? In Albert Camus' 1930s play, the notorious Roman ruler becomes a mouthpiece for the philosophy of the absurd, demonstrating the meaninglessness of life...

Pravda.Ru (Articles): The Intelligentsia and its revolutionary mission

Though most people are vaguely familiar with the word intelligentsia, many confuse it with intellectuals and might be surprised at my claim that I am not of the first but belong to the latter. That distinction is the subject of...

The Spark: "That Guy's Gotta Stop... He'll See Us."

James Dean Memorial Junctionin California, off HWY 46 and 41 Fifty-three years ago today, James Dean uttered those words just moments before his fatal automobile crash near Cholame, California. Obviously, he was wrong,...

Opening Lines

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse. - Charles Williams, War in Heaven It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a...

kate brennan

I live smack bang in the middle of Temple Bar; I'm right on the quays. In the mornings I hear lots of traffic, and trucks offloading into shops. It doesn't bother me. I'm either the one making the noise at night or I'm...

'Blindness': Glimpsing humanity as it fades into white

Sep 22, 2008

'Usually when I make a film, I can get started by going to Google, doing research," Fernando Meirelles said a little nervously, a few hours before a screening in Montreal of his ambitious new movie "Blindness." "But this...

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