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Oprah Picks 'Love in the Time of Cholera' for Readers

Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:04:00 PM

Oprah Winfrey picked Love in the Time of Cholera as her next book club selection on Friday, the second time she has chosen a novel by Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez.   Full Story

New Book Tells of Silent Suffering Under Stalin

Monday, October 08, 2007 12:20:00 PM

LONDON—After countless biographies of Stalin, a new book gives voice to the millions of ordinary Russians who suffered the dictator's reign of terror in silence."The Whisperers: Private Life in ...   Full Story

Poet in the Soup

Sunday, October 07, 2007 12:04:00 PM

At a young age Charles Simic realized that life was soupy, slurpy and, well, just plain messy. Writing poetry can be messy, too. "I don't have a recipe," he says. Each poem is a struggle with endl ...   Full Story

Today's Antidote—Classic Poetry: A Reading of 'The Moon and Sea' by George Darley

Saturday, October 06, 2007 12:12:00 PM

The Moon and Sea Whilst the moon decks herself in Neptune's glass And ponders over her image in the sea, Her cloudy locks smoothing from off her face That she m ...   Full Story

Moving Portraits―A Downtown Performance

Monday, October 01, 2007 12:43:00 PM

LOS ANGELES―As the nearly full moon rose over the Opera House last Saturday night, 'Uptown Underground', a KCRW sponsored event, was well underway, filling the downtown Music Center Plaz ...   Full Story

Ottawa Writer Wins Top Guyana Fiction Prize

Monday, October 01, 2007 12:12:00 PM

In a lavish ceremony attended by over 500 guests in Georgetown, Guyana, renowned Ottawa poet and writer Cyril Dabydeen was recently awarded the Fiction Prize for his novel Drums of My Flesh.   Full Story

Militant Atheists Under Fire in New Book

Sunday, September 30, 2007 9:32:00 PM

LONDON—BBC broadcaster John Humphrys is an agnostic who finds militant atheists as infuriating as religious extremists. How can they be so certain they are right? After his own Christian belief found ...   Full Story

A Reading of 'Call for the Robin-redbreast' by John Webster

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:55:00 PM

Call for the Robin-redbreastCall for the robin-redbreast, and the wren,Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do coverThe friendless bodies of u ...   Full Story

Rumi Without Borders: Celebration of Our Common Bond

Monday, September 24, 2007 12:33:00 PM

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The collection of Rumi's poems called Mathnawi-e-Ma'navi (Spiritual Couplets), had a great influence on Islamic literature and thought. His mausoleum, the Green Dome in ...   Full Story

Notes on the Value of Art

Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:20:00 PM

A reflection on the purpose of art.   Full Story

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