Ukrainian Poet and Rock Star Fights Near Front and Performs Behind It
Serhiy Zhadan, 50, is a beloved Ukrainian poet as well as a novelist, lyricist and rock star. Furious over the invasion, he ...
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Turning to a poet for hope in another time of war [column]
A yahrzeit is the anniversary of a death. Jews tend to remember these things. We light special candles in honor of our dead ...
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Lindsey Hilsum shares poetry inspired by the front lines
MALCOLM BRABANT: After 40 years of covering conflicts around the world, Lindsey Hilsum ... with them and they go to a war zone, but you take a book of poetry. LINDSEY HILSUM: I take both a bottle ...
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Biden makes 'anarchy' statement in last ever UN speech - quotes Irish poet to address Ukraine freedom and the pandemic
The US president used the poignant words of an Irish great to sum up the state of the world in his last UN address ...
Salman Rushdie’s memoir about his stabbing, ‘Knife,’ is a National Book Award nominee
Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” his explicit and surprisingly resilient memoir about his brutal stabbing in 2022, is a nominee for the ...
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By Andrew Higgins Ukrainian Poet and Rock Star ... said the world was “edging towards the unimaginable” amid deepening challenges of war and climate change. The leaders of Ukraine and Denmark ...
The music of the soul: How Arvo Pärt and Johann Sebastian Bach reach toward the divine
What is it that enchants me in the music of Bach and Arvo Pärt? The fact that a German Luther composer and an Estonian ...
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“The poet feels responsible for everything that is happening in the world, including the war”
Freedom Letters has published the poetry book “How are we meant to survive this”. This is a collection of texts by 26 authors written after Russian army invaded Ukraine. Listen to an interview ...
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No, the world isn’t heading toward a new Cold War – it’s closer to the grinding world order collapse of the 1930s
In 1939, the poet W.H. Auden referred to the previous ... had preexisting grievances with the world established after World War I. And, after the failure of a global order based on liberal ...
Britten's choir reunites after local newspaper ad
The recording, made in 1963, sold 200,000 copies in just five months (almost unheard of for a classical work) and won Britten ...
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85 years on, how the poetry of World War II continues to resonate
in home after home)”. Miklós Radnóti, a Hungarian Jew, wrote his final poems under the direst of circumstances, as a slave labourer during World War II. His ‘Razglednicas’ (Postcards) is perhaps the ...