The best nonfiction books add up to a biography of our culture | Books. Once upon a time, the educated reader in, for example, the 17th or even the 18th century could load an essential library of classics on to a horse and cart. Even in Victorian times, you could easily masquerade as well-read with a wagonload of books. Today, you might fill a container truck with all the titles you considered to be representative of the western intellectual tradition – and still find yourself playing catch-up. Today, in what I have described elsewhere on this site as a golden age of reading, there are so many books to investigate, in so many genres: popular culture, anthropology, biography, travelogue, philosophy, reportage, history, memoir and on and on.
The discriminating contemporary reader, drowning in ink, both real and virtual, faces an almost impossible challenge. Focus on the Anglo-American novel, and the list-making project is not disreputable: it has a discernible literary critical purpose. Unlike fiction, nonfiction is not a genre. Noam Chomsky On Surviving The 21st Century. Shifting Focus to What Really Matters in Life.
What Lack of Affection Can Do to You. Leave voters are not all idiots – some Londoners still don’t get it | Abi Wilkinson | Opinion. What if the leave camp actually had a point? Not about quitting the EU, I hasten to add. Though I believe reform is urgently necessary, I’m still convinced we’re better off in than out.
Nor about the downsides of freedom of movement (wage depression in some industries and increased competition for housing and public services), all of which government policy could counteract, and tax revenues from migrant workers would help fund. Certainly, not about £350m-a-week for the NHS or our ability to leave the EU without any sort of economic hit. But that stuff about smug, out-of-touch metropolitan elites? “Sick and tired of sending out cash to the rest of the country so they can whine about London and the immigrants who made it for them,” tweeted Ian Dunt, a broadly left-leaning journalist, yesterday.
Was this sweeping, insulting generalisation intended to parody attacks on migrant workers? My home city of Sheffield voted to leave the EU, but only by a narrow margin of 52 to 48. Shonda Rhimes: My year of saying yes to everything.
Hr. Vinterberg & Mr. Bowie. Harvey Milk. Corey Fujimoto - "Somewhere over the Rainbow" on Kanilea Guitalele. Melissa Fleming: How to help refugees rebuild their world. Frost/Nixon (1977) Segments 1&2 - Watergate/Nixon and the World. I want love. The Art of Vulnerability: An Interview with Cohdi Harrell of Ricochet - Circus Now.
Photo by: Kate Russell Ariel Schmidtke: Can you explain a bit about your creation process? Smoke and Mirrors is very philosophical and I am curious to know if you start with an issue you wish to investigate and then create choreography that interacts with it, or do you start with choreography and then notice the philosophical issues that are already at play in your work? Cohdi Harrell: Both of these things, certainly, are happening simultaneously. A concept can affect the movement and movement can inform a concept. We don’t often work “conceptually” in that way, it feels linear, which isn’t how my creative body works. In Smoke and Mirrors, for example, there are a lot of different ideas/concepts, but the show is not necessarily about capitalism, gender dynamics or politics. But it's necessary to use those ingredients intelligently for the sake of what we are doing. C: These are two different shows. A: What struggles have you had translating some of those themes into movement? C: Right!
Larry Kramer Interview: Playwright on 'The Normal Heart' Movie | The New York Times. Larry Kramer Interview: Playwright on 'The Normal Heart' Movie | The New York Times.