Category Archives: Culture

Back to the Basement-Ping-Pong: It’s a whole new ball game.

The Sporting Scene FEBRUARY 17, 2003 ISSUE

 

BY NANCY FRANKLIN

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Tienchi Martin-Liao: Yan Lianke: A Master of Sarcasm

September 3, 2013
An award-winning Chinese writer provokes and exposes the CCP, despite official bans and censorship.

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Yan Lianke

Chinese author Yan Lianke. Photo: friends.sfpl via Flickr.

This year the Chinese writer Yan Lianke has been longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Continue reading

We’re Missing the Story-The Media’s Retreat From Foreign Reporting

By ANJAN SUNDARAMJULY 25, 2014

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The Democratic Republic of Congo, 2002. Two wars since 1996 have killed more than five million people. Credit Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos

LISBON — THE Western news media Continue reading

What’s Your Book Shelfie Style?

The Huffington Post | By Claire Fallon

Posted: 07/24/2014 9:54 am EDT Updated: 07/24/2014 9:59 am EDT

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Kids today, right? If we’re not taking selfies, we’re taking relfies, or ussies. Most importantly Continue reading

Shibasaki wins Akutagawa award, Kurokawa wins Naoki Prize

TOKYO, July 17, Kyodo

Shibasaki wins Akutagawa award, Kurokawa wins Naoki Prize

Novelist Tomoka Shibasaki won the Akutagawa literary award for up-and-coming authors of pure literature, while the Naoki Prize, another renowned award for popular fiction, Continue reading

Why Memorizing Lines From Shakespeare Is Worthwhile

Posted: 07/23/2014 8:07 am EDT Updated: 07/23/2014 5:59 pm EDT

Having thought about Shakespeare for most of my life, I have concluded that the best way to learn about his plays, his language, his themes and his stories with any real depth and integrity is to memorize Continue reading

“And Then We Went to the Brewery”: Reading as a Social Activity in a Digital Era

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Danielle Fuller
DeNel Rehberg Sedo
Bar Crowd. Photo by Jonathan Adami
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In our hyperdigital era, mass reading events provide opportunities Continue reading

Ghosts in Sunlight

Hilton Als JULY 10, 2014 ISSUE

For Evgenia

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Kara Walker/Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Kara Walker: Burn, cut paper and adhesive on wall, 1998 Continue reading