Pearls: The Week in Brief, 16/7/10
William Faulkner’s lectures at UVA have been digitalized, and you’ll soon be able to hear them. Here are some samples to whet your appetite. ‘Things cannot go on as they […]
William Faulkner’s lectures at UVA have been digitalized, and you’ll soon be able to hear them. Here are some samples to whet your appetite. ‘Things cannot go on as they […]
IT’S WORLD CUP FINAL TIME!!! Time to bury a few national sterotypes… Having said that, here’s an article about Bullfighting. With another Twilight film set to ‘eclipse’ the cultural radar […]
With Shanghai 2010 in full flow, Douglas Murphy reflects on the history of Expos. Asking politicians for their favourite reads as usual generates a lurid tableau of ambition, condescension and […]
The BBC looks to answer the question on everybody’s lips: can painting a mountain restore a glacier? Artists everywhere are closing their Macbooks and returning to the land. Find out […]
Happy Bloomsday! I wonder what it was like to study English Literature at an Egyptian University. Hmm. This seems quite a pertinent question to ask at the moment: will we […]