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Inside Hemingway’s headAlexander Adams A new book explores the effect chronic alcoholism and head trauma had on the writer’s late work. SPIKED, July 2017 On the morning of 2 July 1961, Ernest Hemingway took his favourite shotgun and shot himself in the head at his home in rural Idaho. He had finally done it. He had threatened suicide, described the suicides of others and e..

[강천석 칼럼] 대한민국 과거가 '暗黑의 역사'였다고?강천석 논설고문 조선일보 입력 : 2018.01.20 00:49 地圖에서 지워졌던 한국 '소득 3만달러 인구 5000만 클럽' 문턱 넘는다 국가 연속성 유지, 동맹의 선택·관리가 번영과 추락의 갈림길 강천석 논설고문 한국은 올해 '30-50' 클럽에 들어간다. ..

Let Me Ruin This for YouThe schadenfreude of criticismBy Stephen AkeyTSS, 01/15/2018 About halfway through his essay “Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool,” George Orwell offers a startling explanation for Leo Tolstoy’s notorious antipathy towards Shakespeare: Tolstoy is “trying to rob others of a pleasure he does not share.” Further, “Tolstoy does not know, perhaps, just wha..

A statue of Jesus in a Catholic ashram, South India © Godong/Alamy The post-truth Gospel 0 --> 0"> MARCEL THEROUXTLS, January 9, 2018 0 --> -1 --> In the spring of 1894, a small brown quarto hardback arrived in the bookshops of Paris from the publishing house of Paul Ollendorff. It was called The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ and it contained evidence for an astonishing cl..

What Is Freedom of Conscience? Its long history in Europe and England prepared the American Revolution. Where has this trait gone? Ted Eytan/FlickrBy Marilynne RobinsonAmerican Scholar, December 4, 2017 I assume that conscience is a human trait widespread enough to be generally characteristic, not originating in culture though inevitably modified by it. Guilt and shame, and dr..

Political Islam After the Arab Spring Between Jihad and DemocracyBy Olivier RoyForeign Affairs, November/December 2017 Issue About the Author: OLIVIER ROY is Joint Chair of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and the author of Jihad and Death: The Global Appeal of Islamic State. Oxford University Press, 2017 398 pp. CloseStyle: M..

인내와 유머로 70년을 함께한 이 부부 조선닷컴 입력 : 2017.11.21 09:10 | 수정 : 2017.11.21 09:33 영국 엘리자베스 2세 여왕 결혼 70년 영국 엘리자베스 2세(91) 여왕과 남편인 에든버러 공작필립(96) 공이 20일(현지 시각) 결혼 70주년을 맞았다. 1939년 당시 13세의 엘리자베스 2세가 왕실 소속 다트머스 ..

‘I’d Like to Become a Bird’ My great-great-grandmother’s letters—in Ladino—paint a portrait of the Sephardic community on the Isle of Rhodes, moments before it was destroyed in the Holocaust By Hannah PressmanTabletAug. 21, 2017 Until my early adulthood, I had no family names or faces to connect with the Holocaust. I always assumed that, on my father’s sid..

Going Nowhereby Daniel Judt in Examined Life The Point Before my dad died in August 2010, he had begun work on his next book. “The time has come,” he had decided, “to write about more than just the things one understands; it is just as important if not more so to write about the things one cares about.” The thing my dad understood was twentieth-century European history...

Global Times Do it the right way Writing is an art, we all know that. But do you know that different types of professions require different types of writing skills. Discover what is your strength Maansi Anand, AIS Vas 1, X B Writing, perhaps the most dreadful for some and most breathtaking for others, comes in various shades. While some careers require a formal tone, others re..