* Newstin.com is for sale! * After achieving our strategic milestone, we are offering for sale: Newstin.com and all 14 related domains featuring 1 million unique visitors per month + continuously updated news database of 37 million articles in 12 world languages from 166,000 global and weighted sources + 2.1 billion metadata * To seize this unique chance, contact invest@newstin.com. * Newstin.com is for sale! *

Salman Rushdie

Mohammad wife novel released early in U.S. after fire

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A controversial novel about the Prophet Mohammad's child bride was rushed to U.S. stores on Monday, nine days ahead of schedule, after the office of the book's British publisher was attacked.

The Big Read -I'm doing OK, so far

Stolen from Laney Please see http://www.neabigread.org/ 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE, and strikeout the books you read but didn't like....

In her honest opinion

De’s next book will be out within a year or so. “It (Indian writing in English) is nothing compared to regional literature.” Film critic, socialite, writer…a person of varied talents, Shobhaa De talks to P.K. Ajith Kumar on...

EN251 New Literatures in English

LECTURES: Thursdays, 2-3 pm H545 SEMINARS: Tuesday 12-1; 1-2 Office hours: Tuesdays, 4-5; Thursdays, 3:30-4:30 Rashmi.Varma@warwick.ac.uk; Ext: 523 666 Course Description: This course considers the “new literatures” emerging...

Are you going to see Salman Rushdie when he visits CMU?

"No. I'm going to be too busy studying for my aesthetics (ART 318) class."Kevin Lernowich,Commerce Township junior"No, because my schedule is too busy."Jessica Parij,Warren sophomore"No, I'm too busy with class obligations...

Bro, Can You Spare, Like, Five Bills?

Things aren’t going well for the American economy right now. The Great Depression 1.0 inspired tremendous works of art: From Dorothea Lange to Tom and Ma Joad, the thirties represented one of the great fertile periods of...

Film Review: Religulous

Mike Brownlee - The Daily Iowan Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I watched Bill Maher's movie Religulous, and I loved it. The comedy-documentary was released Oct. 3 to much fanfare, acclaim, scorn, and controversy. But...

Your absolute right to be heard

Um, haven't we been here before? Twenty years ago, a largely obscure author -- well, as obscure as someone who had already won the Booker can be -- Salman Rushdie, published his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses.

Rushdie, Jhumpa, Kiran Desai rally for Obama

NEW YORK: Half a dozen celebrated authors of Indian origin, including Salman Rushdie, were scheduled to speak here later Saturday in support of Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama at an event organized by the South...

Lily Cole starts degree at Cambridge University

Model Lily Cole is going from undie-clad to undergrad after enrolling at Cambridge University. The 20-year-old - who controversially appeared in Playboy last Friday in just white socks holding a teddy bear - was one of 135...

1 2 3 4 5 next »