by Editor | Jun 24, 2023 | Literary News
from The Los Angeles Times Cormac McCarthy shaped a generation of writers like me — even when we didn’t admit it BY JOHN WRAY Cormac McCarthy in Santa Fe, N.M., in 2014. (Beowulf Sheehan) For the entirety of my writing life, Cormac McCarthy has been a mountain. Some...
by Editor | Jun 23, 2023 | Culture Music Art
from The Wall Street Journal An IPO for a Painting? This $55 Million Masterpiece Is Going Public A portrait by British painter Francis Bacon will be publicly listed this summer, even as rising interest rates blur the case for investing in art By Carol Ryan Painter...
by Editor | Jun 21, 2023 | Culture Music Art
from AP In Europe’s empty churches, prayer and confessions make way for drinking and dancing BY RAF CASERT MECHELEN, Belgium (AP) — The confessionals where generations of Belgians admitted their sins stood stacked in a corner of what was once Sacred Heart Church,...
by Editor | Jun 20, 2023 | Culture Music Art
from Reuters Ancient Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discover an ancient Mayan city in the Balamku ecological reserve© Thomson Reuters MEXICO CITY, June 20 (Reuters) – A previously...
by Editor | Jun 17, 2023 | Weirdness
from The Guardian Ready for your crapsule? Faecal transplants could play a huge role in future medicine An effective treatment for a whole raft of diseases, from irritable bowel syndrome to arthritis and even Alzheimer’s, comes from the most unlikely of sources –...
