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First edition of a Spanish newspaper. via Wikimedia Commons
Neglected and Loved Treasures of Ancient and Modern Literature
What is Literature Good For?
Regardless of genre or style:
The eternal virtues of literature are sincerity, clarity, breadth, force, and subtlety.— Sir Walter Raleigh (the literary critic, not the Elizabethan courtier), in Romance
Little Reads
Little Reads
by Marta Bellingreri (text) and Alessio Mamo (photos) (January 9, 2025) [Guardian]
Iraq is believed to have more missing people than any other country, according to the International Red Cross, with estimates ranging from 250,000 to one million.
Nobody could accuse the article of having a cheerful topic. But this look into forensic work in Iraq is not just the type of reporting of real significance that used to be far more widely financed and printed when I was a teenager.
It is also timely in the context of neighbouring Syria: as Germany's Tagesschau evening news broadcast reported recently, the White Helmets there are also struggling to document and bury executed civilians properly. — Resources for forensics are still hard to obtain.
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Films on Literature
Films on Literature
Bright Star (2009), directed by Jane Campion, has just left Netflix's collection in Germany. It is a thoughtful, detailed look at the early 19th-century romance between John Keats and Fanny Brawne.
***Black Lives Matter:
by Victoria Alexander [Victorialynnalexander.com] (updated throughout June 2020)
An American academic has put together a reading list for fledgling anti-racists that is the best-rounded, most thoughtful one I have seen so far.
It ranges from calls to action, and films and magazine articles and non-fiction books and more, to novels about African-American experiences.
I am working through the list. It's a gradual process; I only wrapped up New York Times Magazine's 1619 project on June 21st, and have read Ta-Nehisi Coates's article for The Atlantic: "Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular" (October 23, 2017).
About Me
- Edithor
- Canadian-raised Berliner. 39 years old. Formerly, data entry team lead. Besides working, I am interested in literature, languages, classical music, and many other things.
Literary Pages
- Anti-Racist Resource Guide (PDF, 2020)
- Distributed Proofreaders (Project Gutenberg)
- Harper's Magazine
- Hathi Trust (free public domain books)
- Im Dickicht (Wordpress Blog)
- Ms. Magazine: Arts & Entertainment
- New York Review of Books
- New Yorker
- Oprah Magazine: Books
- Our Shared Shelf: Emma Watson's Group on Goodreads
- Project Gutenberg (Online Book Catalogue)
- Publishers Weekly | Reviews
- The Guardian⎮Books
- Times Literary Supplement
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First edition of a Spanish newspaper. via Wikimedia Commons
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