Click Here to View: Chinese, on the Inside by Liz Mak in The New York Times on March 3rd, 2014.
Catie and Kimberly were adopted from China by a couple from Maine, who attempt to pass on a culture they’ve never known firsthand.
Research reveals first glimpse of brain circuit that helps experience to shape perception
Little Failure review
Click Here to Read: Little Failure review – Gary Shteyngart’s hilarious memoir: Gary Shteyngart’s memoir of adapting to life in the US is witty and heartbreaking by Peter Conrad on the Guardian Observer website on March 1, 2014.
Click Here to View: How far modern authors have to go to survive? on YouTube.
When Gary Shteyngart arrived in New York in 1979, he felt that he ‘had stumbled off a monochromatic cliff and landed in a pool of pure Technicolor’. Photograph: Alamy
Acclaimed French film director Alain Resnais dies aged 91
Click Here to Read: Acclaimed French film director Alain Resnais dies aged 91. Arthouse director rode crest of French new wave movement of 1960s and was still making films as he reached by Anne Penketh on the Guardian.com website on March 2, 2014.
Alain Resnais, who has died aged 91, reacts after receiving the lifetime achievement award at the Cannes film festival in 2009. Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters
Sociology and Anthropology Monday: Vilfredo Pareto
Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) was a Franco-Italian civil engineer turned economist and sociologist. Prior to 1898 he was a traditional economic liberal and politically a man of the left. He failed at his bid for a career in politics and became disillusioned and somewhat embittered. He began to withdraw from society, and, after having inherited a small fortune he retired to a house in Celigny where he acquired an enormous wine cellar with his companion, Jane Regis, and a legion of Angora cats. In his later years he became increasingly Continue reading Sociology and Anthropology Monday: Vilfredo Pareto
The psychology of hate
Click Here to Read: The psychology of hate: How we deny human beings their humanity From slavery to genocide, society has shown a terrifying ability to disregard the personhood of others. Here’s why by Nicholas Epley on the Salon website on March 2, 2014.
Chiwetel Ejiofor in “12 Years a Slave” (Credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Jimmy P.
Poetry Monday: May 5th, 2008
Maxine Kumin
POETRY MONDAY: MAY 5, 2008
Long before there was a Poet Laureate of the United States, there was a Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Maxine Kumin, one of our most beloved American poets, had that honor. She has also been Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, winner of a Pulitzer Prize as well as many other prestigious fellowships and awards. One or more of her many books (sixteen poetry collections, a stirring memoir, four novels, a short-story collection, four books of essays and more than twenty children’s books) surely must be on some of your shelves already.
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POETRY MONDAY: March 3, 2014
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
The Old Woman, the Tulip and the Dog, by Alicia Suskin Ostriker.
Pitt Poetry Series. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
Why a review instead of a new-poet feature this month? Because next month is the official “pay attention to poetry” month, when we will all be bombardedwith press releases and “Hey, look at me!” e-mails and posters featuring poetry, and one book – one marvelous book – might possibly get lost in the fight for our attention. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: March 3, 2014
Maxine Kumin 1925-2014
A Note from the Poetry Editor:
It came to my attention recently that some of you may have missed the news that one of America’s most celebrated and beloved poets, Maxine Kumin, died in February of this year, at age 88, at her home in Warner, New Hampshire. An almost full-page obituary appeared in the New York Times on February 8. Continue reading Maxine Kumin 1925-2014