The nice people at Kakiseni would like you to know that the deadline for the playwriting competition has been extended till 30 August 2007. (Clickety click to be inspired by the poster....

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There has been a recent and rather surprising upswing in the popularity of Jane Austen. Not only have her own books become fav...

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Neal Thompson has written an account of the dispersal of a high school football team from New Orleans after Katrina.

Small Spiral Notebook on a new collection of essays about marriage:I got married last November, too early to have benefited fr...

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For those who read Spanish, the magazine Letras Libres has a review of what is likely to be the last two books published under Rober...

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Eurozine on Russia's leading conceptualist:Along with Lev Rubenstein, Prigov was considered the leading personality of so-called "conceptualis...

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Direct from Europe, The Exception, reviewed in The New YorkerOffices are ideal laboratories for examining how people get along...

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Remember, if you're in the Los Feliz area tonight, please come by and check out the Swink reading, where we'll be reading a preview fro...

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* Mister Pip has won the Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry.  (No, not that Montana.  Sheesh, Yanks.) * The shortlist for th...

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