“Exterminate all bullies! » With these words, borrowed from Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness Hunter S. Thompson concluded his violent and macabre 1967 book Hell’s Angels: A strange and terrible saga . ...
04.14.2024 Rollingstone.com and 2 sitesA few minutes before Salman Rushdie ’s book party begins, his longtime literary agent, Andrew Wylie, is sitting at a table outside the Waverly Inn with a Hoyo de Monterrey Cuban cigar between his teet...
04.15.2024 Nymag.com and 1 sites2024-04-16 08: 47: 38 No, human flesh, that’s going too far for Konrad Widuch. He wouldn’t eat that, or at least in an extreme emergency. Maybe when the last horse and dog have been slaughtered and th...
04.17.2024 Time.news and 1 sitesIN OUT OF PLACE: A Memoir (1999), Edward Said recalls that after graduating from Princeton in June 1957, he was torn by “differing impulses”: he could pursue a fellowship from Harvard for graduate stu...
04.18.2024 Lareviewofbooks.orgAs Lent begins, George Pitcher has been wondering how Christ's instruction to "sell all you have and give the money to the poor" applies to the conflict in Ukraine There is a story, said to be true, of a wealthy and young insurgent in the Middle East seeking out his rebel leader to ask what he might do to liberate himself and his people from the dictatorship under which they’re oppressed, because he’s heard that that’s how he and his name will live forever. His leader gives him a stark and uncom...
04.16.2024 Premierchristianity.comWe set our date at random. From three weeks away, Monday looked like Tuesday, Tuesday like Thursday –– 3 p. m. commonly open. “Perhaps Monday the 8th at 3 p. m? ” I asked, without any evident reason. ...
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