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- Swishing from serenity to horror - Sri Lanka Sunday Times
Swishing from serenity to horror Ehela Ablaze by Shireen Senadhira. Reviewed by Punyakante Wijenaike Ehela Ablaze is Shireen Senadhira’s first publication, a book of short stories interlaced with poetry.
- 'Fear Itself' (Calendarlive.com)
There is no arguing with horror. People like to be scared and will pay good money for it, and though it is common enough to regard the more egregious products of the genre as potentially the end of civilization -- I often do myself -- it has been not ending civilization for quite some time now.
- Controlled Chaos - Buffalo News
Top to bottom: Local musician Paul Painkiller, comedian Josh Smith, puppeteer Michele Costa and poet Ekaete Bailey. The Buffalo Infringement Festival made its first humble appearance in Allentown only four years ago. This year, the festival has ...
- I want a long rest from a game that never sleeps - Guardian Blogs
Why don't I like football? Maybe it's because I was a timid child and I was made to play it against my will. Memories of cold, dark autumn afternoons in the 1980s, standing in the corner of a sports field hoping nobody would kick the ball anywhere ...
- Nicci Gerrard: The ogre above and the frightened family below (The New Zealand Herald)
Behind all the words, the turning over of facts, the analysis, the frantic speculation (did the wife know?) and the tormented search for meanings (how could this happen?), lies a central image: a woman and her three children buried alive, toothless, hunchbacked, pale-skinned, talking in their own mumbling language, just beneath the surface of everyday life for 24 years.
- McGuinty defends tax credits for controversial films - CTV.ca
CTV.caMcGuinty defends tax credits for controversial filmsCTV.ca, Canada - Jun 11, 2008"I just don't think we politicians should be getting into lending a shape to building designs, what poetry is acceptable and not, and what movies are ...
- An insight into Kashmiri literature - Organiser
An insight into Kashmiri literatureOrganiser, India - 8 hours agoHis subjects are varied as also his styles of writing, from satire to poetry to devotional works. This translation no doubt is a valuable addition to the ...
- Defending Much Maligned Sci Fi - Utne Reader Online
Utne Reader OnlineDefending Much Maligned Sci FiUtne Reader Online - 3 hours agoThe settings are dark, the outcomes gloomy, and the boundaries between reality and illusion often indistinguishable”), and space opera (“Big ideas, ...
- Poetry Roundup - Austin Chronicle
Coffee House, the nonprofit literary press out of Minneapolis, released five diverse poetry titles during April's National Poetry Month. The Romance of Happy Workers , the new collection by Anne Boyer, co-editor of the journal Abraham Lincoln , draws ...
- First-of-its-Kind Study at the University of Minnesota Uncovers the ... - Forbes
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL, Minn., June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- In a first-of- its-kind study, researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered the educational benefits of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. The same study found ...
- Blues and Jazz Examiner - San Francisco Examiner
In some recent pictures, guitarist Marc Ribot looks like that professor you had in college… complete with scruffy salt and pepper hair and a wry smile. But this belies the heart of a radical musical polymath that still beats within him. Jumping ...
- Henry: It's sad/ world's not glad/ we are bad - MetroWest Daily News
Being a patriotic fellow, I am always saddened to learn that the good ol' USA isn't No. 1 in all fields. That was my reaction last week when I read an Associated Press story from Edinburgh, Scotland, that said a collector had paid $12,840 for 35 ...
- Me and Mr Jones - Sunday Herald
I HAVE an Average Joe lifestyle," declares Shia LaBeouf. There is a short silence before the 21-year-old actor, thinking back over what he has just said, hastily tags on a caveat: "Kind of ..." LaBeouf may in fact be that rarest of things - a ...
- To better understand Shakespeare - Mail Tribune
To better understand ShakespeareMail Tribune, OR - 3 hours agoThe plays and poems don't show a consistent "style," (whatever that is) which is what you'd expect of a body of work ranging from prose to poetry, ...
- Mary Whitehouse is the real monster - Times Online
One of the least pressing problems of the 21st century is that we don’t have a postmodern Mary Whitehouse. Ann Widdecombe was almost it, but the peroxide hair ruined it. Edwina Currie showed early promise, but then kissed and told and told and told ...
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