News Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013 Math and science education is all the rage these days, but is there still room for liberal arts in the business world? Here’s a case for why it’s useful. laughingsquid/Flickr, gageskidmore/Flickr, norlen/Flickr From left to right: Business leaders Chad Dickerson, Carly Fiorina and Ted Turner all have liberal arts …
News Date: Monday, February 11, 2013 By Akshita Nanda It is never too late to write a great book, as proven by four authors whose debut novels are making waves in literary circles. On the list are 81-year-old Pakistani writer Jamil Ahmad whose book, The Wandering Falcon, was shortlisted last month for the US$50,000 (S$61,000) …
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News Date: Friday, February 15, 2013 Launched in 2010, the annual Karachi Literature Festival is open to all and free. The first of its kind in Pakistan, it brings together and celebrates Pakistani and international authors writing in diverse languages. It features creative writing workshops, debates, discussions, lectures, mushairah, a book fair, book launches, readings, …
News Date: Sunday, February 3, 2013 February 14, 2012 by findingDulcinea Staff Countless love stories in literature have inspired real-life romance. In this article find links to e-books, book club guides and other resources for exploring some of the most romantic tales in literature, including Jane Austen’s “Emma,” “The Odyssey” and “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.” Love …
News Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 The cover of Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity In her new book Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity (I.B. Tauris, 2011), Maria Koundoura, associate professor of literature at Emerson College, breaks new ground in her comparative analysis of Peter Balakian’s Black Dog of Fate, Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul, and Elif Shafak’s novel The …
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News Date:Monday, January 21, 2013 It’s no surprise that 2012’s bestseller lists in Britain and America are dominated by EL James with the Fifty Shades trilogy and by Suzanne Collins with her Hunger Games books. Then there are other writers you might expect such as JK Rowling (The Casual Vacancy) and Jeff Kinney (the Wimpy …
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News Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 In honor of the two-hundredth anniversary of the publication of “Pride and Prejudice” this week, we’re running a series of pieces on Jane Austen and her legacy. In 1852, George Henry Lewes, the literary critic, sometime novelist, amateur scientist, and all-round man of letters, contributed an essay to the …
News Date: Sunday, January 20, 2013 As you might expect, the title of the new novel was not released in the usual, straightforward channels, but through a digital mosaic, according to a Guardian report. By posting on Facebook, or tweeting using the hashtag #DanBrownToday, readers’ profile images were added as tiles in a web graphic, …
News Date:Friday, January 25, 2013 By Dr Amjad Parvez Muhabbat Ki Kitaab By Ayub Khawer Alqa Publications, Lahore; Pp 177 It is amazing the way Ayub Khawer has managed to converge his intrinsic quality of saying poetry and ability of drama production into one form; the book titled Muhabat Ki Kitaab. The book knits the …
News Date: Sunday, January 27, 2013 The art of the Czech Republic is less well known than its literature or music, but the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea and the National Gallery in Prague have worked together to break the mold and brought a selection of 107 paintings by 28 modern Czech artists for …
