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Unflinching Athill lands Costa book award at 91
A 91-year-old who wrote a unflinching memoir encompassing the end of her sex life, the intimacies of ageing and the prospect of death has become the oldest writer to win a Costa prize.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:24:43 GMT - (Independent)

Jeffrey Yang's 'An Aquarium'
Not since D. H. Lawrence or Kenneth Rexroth has a poet wrung so much human meaning from the natural world. But whereas Lawrence is discursively tender, and Rexroth wry and epigrammatically clever, Jeffrey Yang speaks in tongues as if touched with a Pentecostal flame.
Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:01:46 GMT - (International Herald Tribune)

Best of 2008
We love music. We're unapologetically nuts for the stuff. Addicted, enthralled, obsessed. But that doesn't mean we agree on anything. In the Herald's annual...
Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:12:05 GMT - (Boston Herald)

Impending rape of an Arcadian beauty
The Environment Protection Division in 1977 highlighted the uniqueness of Ramla l-?amra area flora and fauna with the publication of this brochure. The rural innocence of the Arcadian valley lying between Nadur and Xag?ra is under threat. This idyllic countryside has a fascination of its own.
Sun, 14 Dec 2008 08:38:25 GMT - (Times of Malta)

Best books of 2008 to enjoy over the holidays
None of us has yet thrown a book in the fire with the un-natural gas "logs" to warm a winter's night. A good book, however, [...]
Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:38:20 GMT - (Orillia Packet & Times)

Analysis: spoiling for a fight
The smouldering centre of Athens yesterday provided the latest evidence of a propensity to political violence that has characterised the Greeks since Homeric times.
Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:56:51 GMT - (Times Online)

Bogan nativity sparks fury
A UK school has caused a storm with a 'bogan' nativity play where Jesus turns water into lager and the three wise men bring gifts of Adidas trackies.
Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:12:00 GMT - (The Courier Mail)

Riots in Greece: A Crikey wrap
Greece is effectively shut off today with all airports closed as rioting continues through major cities in the wake of police shootings. But who is rioting and why?
Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:44:34 GMT - (Crikey)

Six decades on, German-Russian war booty disputes still rage
More than 60 years after the end of World War II, disputes over war booty rage on as Germany seeks, with mixed success, the return of treasures looted by the victorious Red Army.
Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:10:55 GMT - (AFP via Yahoo! News)

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Thunderstruck
[ light551]Just back from a lovely trip to the Ethical Society of St ... prove that there are not the Homeric gods. None
Posted on 2009-01-06 17:05:38 GMT

blog: The Meming of Life Parenting Beyond Belief on secular parenting and other natural wondersLA SPERANZA NON E' MAI L'ULTIMA A MORIRE
LA SPERANZA NON E' MAI L'ULTIMA A MORIRE by mariazuppello @ 2009-01-06 '“ 14:40:16 DA INDEPENDENT Unflinching Athill lands Costa book award at 91 Former literary editor is oldest winner of prize, for memoir that drew plaudits for its honesty about sex and death By Arifa Akbar, Arts Correspondent Tuesday,
Posted on 2009-01-06 14:40:16 GMT

blog: vita da reporterThe Odyssey by Homer (Text Synchronized Audiobook)
The Odyssey by Homer (Text Synchronized Audiobook) Category: Books Released: 01/05/09 Price: $0.99 (Download) ... in the Western canon and continues to be read in both Homeric Greek and translations around the world
Posted on 2009-01-06 01:19:13 GMT

blog: A for AndroidThe Odyssey by Homer (Text Synchronized Audiobook)
The Odyssey by Homer (Text Synchronized Audiobook) Category: Books Released: 01/05/09 Price: $0.99 (Download) ... in the Western canon and continues to be read in both Homeric Greek and translations around
Posted on 2009-01-06 00:55:28 GMT

blog: iPhone BlogCompanion Guide to Istanbul: and around the Marmara (Companion Guides): John Freely
Companion Guide to Istanbul: and around the Marmara (Companion Guides) ... of Homeric Troy. It is also an introduction to Turkey itself and to its people and their way of life
Posted on 2009-01-05 10:29:14 GMT

blog: China TourSophocles' Ajax
The subject matter of Sophocles' play Ajax is about as far-removed from our own day's concerns as could be imagined: ... the Homeric hero Ajax kills and tortures many animals in the middle of the night, thinking
Posted on 2009-01-05 09:18:33 GMT

blog: Port Coquitlam OdysseusThe Old Has Gone, the New Has Come: The Umlaut Changes Name to Distigme
In the beginning of December, Philip Payne contacted me and said he had given a lot of thought and investigation into the best name to identify the pairs of dots in the margins of Codex Vaticanus B, known since the original discovery in 1995 as "Umlaut(s)." Those he had spoken to up to that point agreed that the expression "dot pair" (
Posted on 2009-01-05 09:02:00 GMT

blog: Evangelical Textual CriticismHistory of Boxing
Early History-Fist fighting was found in Sumerian relief carvings in the 3rd millennium BC, ... their competitions honoring the fallen, though it is possible that the Homeric epics reflect later culture. Another
Posted on 2009-01-05 00:31:00 GMT

blog: SaliksikThe Improvised Odyssey of Barack Obama
The Improvised Odyssey of Barack Obamahttp://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/the_improvised_odyssey_of_bara ... scarcely an Homeric trope unturned in his mining of the Odyssey to describe Obama's "personal interior ... his Homeric hand. "Memory sails out upon a murky sea-wine-dark, opaque, unfathomable," he writes
Posted on 2009-01-03 21:28:00 GMT

blog: The SIXTIES2009
January 1, 2009 Amy and Bill arrived yesterday evening, so the complement is complete ... to Homeric lengths'“ Owen Thomas, I think. I was exhausted by sideboards and carved plaster and went
Posted on 2009-01-03 19:41:00 GMT

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