by | Mar 26, 2011 | Literary News
from The Wall Street Journal What Happened to Heaven and Is Gandhi There? A new book stirs debate about the afterlife. By JOHN WILSON Something strange has happened in evangelical churches over the past generation. Not in every congregation, but in the main, sermons...
by | Mar 23, 2011 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Literary News
from MediaBistro’s UNBEIGE Rodrigo Corral Appointed Creative Director of Farrar, Straus and Giroux By Stephanie Murg on March 22, 2011 3:03 PM This just in: star graphic designer Rodrigo Corral has been appointed creative director of Farrar, Straus and...
by | Mar 22, 2011 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Huffington Post Will the King James Bible Survive? by Timothy Beal Author, ‘The Rise and Fall of the Bible’ Four hundred years since the King’s Printer published the first edition in 1611, the King James Version Bible continues to reign...
by | Mar 19, 2011 | Literary News
from The Guardian UK The 10 best American poems The list could go on and on, but these are the poems that seem to me to have left the deepest mark on US literature – and me Engraving of Walt Whitman by George C Cox. Image: Bettmann/Corbis For whatever reason,...
by | Mar 18, 2011 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Angry Salon James Frey does Jesus If the faux-memoirist thinks he’ll offend anyone by depicting Christ as a whoring drunk, he’ll be disappointed BY LAURA MILLER Salon Apparently James Frey has a tiny man in his head, like some kind of internalized...
by | Mar 18, 2011 | Literary News
from NPR New Bible Draws Critics Of Gender-Neutral Language by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In the old translation of the world’s most popular Bible, John the Evangelist declares: “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ yet hates his brother, he is a...
