“In one of the most beautiful spots in the Balkans, the former Yugoslavia’s most celebrated film director … [is erecting] a town within a town that will echo in wood and stone the region’s greatest work of fiction. Published in 1945 by the Nobel laureate Ivo Andric, The Bridge on the Drina tells the violent story of Bosnia through events on and around Visegrad’s magnificent 16th-century Ottoman bridge.”
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Want To Find An Honest Person? Look For One Who Feels Guilty
“The researchers find that 30% to 40% of adults are highly guilt-prone, and these tend to be nice folks. Guilt-proneness correlates to all kinds of positive traits, including sincerity, fairness, modesty, agreeableness and conscientiousness.”
E-Book Sales In Canada Surge To 16 Percent Of Market
“The report suggests one in three Canadians is a regular book buyer and purchases an average of 2.8 titles per month. While e-book sales are growing, print sales still dominate, with paperbacks representing an estimated 56.7 per cent of the market and hardcovers making up 23.6 per cent.”
Why No Genre Fiction Nominees On National Book Awards List?
“The genres have their own prizes, but the most prestigious of the awards remain the private reserve of literary fiction. Yet we live and read at a time when the lines between genre and literary fiction are being persistently rubbed away.”
The Women Of TV Worry Less About Weight
“Self-acceptance has become a new form of defiance on television, especially among younger female comedians. Partly that’s because it’s refreshingly unusual. There’s little comic shock value left in profanity, obscenity or intolerance, but it’s still quite rare and surprising to see a woman not obsess about her waistline.”
UK Arts Groups Need To Engage With Business Community
“We need to engage the business sector in a fundamental reworking of the model in which the not-for-profit arts sector is now expecting to exist. We are hoping the arts will be able to become more sustainable, so the business brains need to be a part of the equation as much as the business money does.”
Chinese Writer Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize
“Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition.”
The Essential Pauline Kael
“One of the things Kael’s writing implies is that the intensity of the moviegoing experience–sitting in a dark, cave-like space, not unlike the inside of your head when your eyes are shut, yet surrounded by strangers whose presence heightens your own reactions–restores you to yourself and can be the source of not just cultural knowledge but self-knowledge.”