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Israel's Haaretz newspaper lets novelists take on the news
Jacket CopyDuring what has been one of the toughest news weeks for Israel in recent memory, daily newspaper Haaretz has let novelists and cultural critics step into its pages. The invitations to Margaret Atwood, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Jonathan Safran Foer, Milan... -
When famous writers feud
Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald are not the only literary friends to see their relationship go cold. Indeed, the history of literature is a history of betrayals, of writers turning on each other and collaborations falling apart. Below, we give...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Crimes, French Literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Crime, Law and Justice
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Shakira, other Latin American stars sing for their cause -- ALAS
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMEXICO CITY -- Not so long ago, Latin American artists who spoke up for social causes often risked prison, exile or far worse. What a difference a generation makes. On Thursday, a phalanx of Spanish-speaking pop artists headed by Colombian superstar...Tags: Bill Gates, Television Networks, Warren Buffett, Gordon Brown, Justice System
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Where's Weldon?
The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge....Tags: Arts and Culture, Eric Ambler, Cults and Sects, Tom Wolfe, Randall Jarrell
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Peru comes alive with irresistible rhythms
Times Staff WriterLima, Peru The penthouse recording studio of musician Manuel Miranda enjoys a panoramic view of this ancient and strangely compelling city. When he turns down the lights and turns up his bewitching brew of ancestral Andean melodies, jazzy rhythms and...Tags: Music Industry, Dancing, Ernest Hemingway, Hospitals and Clinics, Family
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The magic of Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García
Márquez
A Life
Gerald Martin
Alfred A. Knopf: 646 pp., $37.50
"Everyone has three lives," Gabriel García Márquez once told Gerald Martin. "A public life, a private life and a secret life." With little help from the novelist himself,...Tags: Colombia, Massacres, Literature, Nobel Prize Awards, Arts and Culture
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Mario Benedetti dies at 88; Uruguayan poet and writer
Uruguayan author Mario Benedetti, whose bestselling poems and novels helped launch Latin America's postwar literary boom, has died. He was 88. Benedetti died Sunday at his home in Montevideo, Uruguay's capital, of complications arising from a chronic...Tags: Spain, Arts and Culture, Political Systems, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Carlos Fuentes
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Serendipity in South America
Special to The Times"When the moon separated from the Earth, it forgot to take Arequipa." I could almost believe this local saying as I walked into Arequipa's Plaza de Armas near midnight on a warm May evening. The air smelled of flowering trees, and moonlight played across...Tags: Peru, Education, LanChile SA, Arts and Culture, Family
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Author Susan Sontag Dies
Times Staff WriterSusan Sontag, one of America's most influential intellectuals, internationally renowned for the passionate engagement and breadth of her critical intelligence and her ardent activism in the cause of human rights, died today of leukemia. She was 71. The...Tags: Dancing, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Illnesses, Tuberculosis, Diseases and Illnesses
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More with Amandeep Sandhu
As promised, here's the continuation of Rosalia Scalia's thoughtful Q&A with Indian novelist Amandeep Sandhu. He touches on inspirations, the challenge of writing in another language, and the role that emotion plays in great writing.
RS: You said that in...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Dario Fo, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Russia
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Una Colorada (vale más que cien descoloridas): Mes de Marte
Para los romanos, el primer año de su calendario estaba dedicado al Dios de la Guerra, el décimo quinto día de ese periodo, así como de otros tres periodos lunares del año, se decía que era de buenos augurios. Sin embargo, El idus de marzo- es...Tags: Edgar Allan Poe, Antonio Vivaldi, Karl Marx, Henrik Ibsen
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Nobel natterings: let the barfight begin
Tribune cultural criticLet the bar fights begin: Mario Vargas Llosa? You gotta be kidding me. Of all the categories in which Nobel Prizes are awarded, none gets the blood going quite like the literary one. It’s a little tricky to have an opinion about the physics or...Tags: Education, Julia Keller, William Trevor, Awards and Prizes, Toni Morrison
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