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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 Andreas Hergeth (June 4, 2024) [Taz]
A reporter of German left-wing newspaper taz visits GDR-built apartment building blocks with a man who's trained as a visitor for elderly people who feel alone.
It's not a particularly dramatic subject on the face of it -- more a picture of everyday survival. But it is important and full of poignant insights. For example, that people suffer more from being abandoned by family who are still alive, than from losing all of their family due to death.
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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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