Quoting Irish poetry, Joe Biden is making ‘hope and history rhyme’ – The Washington Post
Quoting Irish poetry, Joe Biden is making ‘hope and history rhyme’ The Washington Post
Three Tunisian novels in shortlist of EU literature prize | MEO
TUNIS - Three Tunisian novels are among 50 books from 14 countries on the short-list for the European Union Prize for Literature 2021 (EUPL) which is funded by the European Commission’s Creative Europe programme.According to the Creative Europe Desk in
African Europeans, Jewish Commandos of WWII and Other New Books to Read
Sweeping in scope and ambition, historian Olivette Otele’s newest book is one of the first comprehensive chronicles of African people’s presence on the European continent. Beginning in Roman-occupied Gaul, where the Egyptian-born Saint Maurice was reportedly executed for refusing to
Literature Nobels awarded for 2018 and 2019
By Jill Lawless and David Keyton | Associated PressSTOCKHOLM — Nobel Prizes for literature were awarded Thursday to two writers enmeshed in Europe’s social and political fault lines: a liberal Pole who has irked her country’s conservative government and an
Boney’s books: Why Napoleon was history’s ultimate bookworm
In both war and peace, a love of reading made Napoleon history's biggest bibliophile. When you’re an enthusiastically expansionist autocrat and visionary military leader building an empire that will cover almost an entire continent your work doesn’t, it’s fair to
They’re classics now, but what did we think of books by Yeats, Behan and Binchy at the time?
What did The Irish Times first say about some works of literature that turned into classics? We trawled the archive to find out The Irish Times was founded in March 1859 and, more than 160 years later, is
The Forgotten Genius of Leo Perutz – lareviewofbooks
BORGES LISTED HIM among the great mystery writers of the age; Robert Musil claimed he had invented his own genre; Italo Calvino, Graham Greene, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ian Fleming counted themselves as fans — and yet Leo Perutz has been
East vs West: How Turkish, Arab, Persian sources nurture European literature through Orientalism | Daily Sabah – Daily Sabah
East vs West: How Turkish, Arab, Persian sources nurture European literature through Orientalism | Daily Sabah Daily Sabah
E.U. Says Americans Can Come, but Europeans Wonder How
Spain, though limiting its own citizens’ movements, has for weeks been open to visitors with negative PCR tests from the rest of Europe, and tourists have been flocking to places like Madrid, which has more relaxed restrictions than their home
‘Ulysses was a large stomachful.’ How The Irish Times reviewed James Joyce in the 1920s
A trawl of the Irish Times archives reveals a lot about how “great” literature is seen at time of publication. Here is how the newspaper viewed James Joyce, giant of 20th-century literature, in 1923.