by | Apr 26, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Guardian Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can help by Donald Robertson A bust of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Photograph: DEA/G DAagli Orti/De Agostini via Getty Images The Meditations, by a Roman emperor who died in a plague named after him,...
by | Apr 19, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Millions On Pandemic and Literature by Ed Simon Less than a century after the Black Death descended into Europe and killed 75 million people—as much as 60 percent of the population (90% in some places) dead in the five years after 1347—an anonymous Alsatian...
by | Apr 13, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Daily Mail World’s earliest record of the F-word is discovered in manuscript written by bored Scottish student in 1568 locked away in the vault of the National Library of Scotland Earliest written use of the F-word dates back to a 500-year-old...
by | Feb 7, 2020 | Literary News
from The New Yorker Toni Morrison’s Profound and Unrelenting Vision “The Bluest Eye,” which was published fifty years ago, cut a new path through the American literary landscape by placing black girls at the center of the story. By Hilton Als Morrison in 1970, the...
by | Jan 8, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from CNN Elizabeth Wurtzel, a controversial writer whose work will live on Opinion by Holly Thomas Elizabeth Wurtzel was a pioneer of the confessional memoir. The opposite of controversial is irrelevant. So believed Elizabeth Wurtzel, who was herself controversial and...
by | Jan 3, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Observer The Oldest Copy of the First Illustrated Book Has Been Discovered in Egypt By Helen Holmes Detail from one of the coffins of Gua, chief physician of Djehutyhotep, governor of Bersha. The paintings recall drawings from the Book of Two Ways. Werner...
