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Happy New Year quotes to share with friends, family and colleagues

It's almost time to bid 2022 farewell and greet 2023 with fresh zeal, passion, and positivity.

The Times of India · Dec 31, 2022

Review: If you doubted the greatness of Bill Nighy, a moving new drama offers 'Living' proof

Not long into "Living," Mr. Williams learns that he has not long to live. The news doesn't come as a huge shock, but even if it did, you gather, nothing about this man — not his stiff posture, his calmly appraising gaze or his thin, flat line of a mouth…

Los Angeles Times · Dec 22, 2022

Pronouncing Foreigners' Names

Some comments on the thread about pronouncing foreign country names (such as Qatar and France) raised the question of how we should pronounce foreign people's names. Here too my answer is: We should follow the English norms, which often depart from the norms in those people's native languages—just like, I…

Reason · Nov 29, 2022

‘Hope matters’: Ukrainian and international authors on why literature is important in times of conflict

Ten writers appearing at the Lviv BookForum, run this year in partnership with the Hay festival, discuss why we need books more than ever

The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2022

Gandhi Jayanti 2022: History, Significance, facts, celebration and all you need to know

Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated on 2nd October every year to mark the birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who was famously known as Mahatma Gandhi. This day is celebrated all over the country, even outside the country by the followers of Mahatma Gandhi. He is honoured for his invaluable contributions…

The Times of India · Sep 30, 2022

First sitcom, first chef, first castaway, first dance and first Woman’s Hour: 100 years of the BBC, part three

Desert Islands Discs launched, a raffish bachelor made sitcom history, hoofers had a riot and a man called Alan hosted Woman’s Hour – which revealed how to keep your husband’s suits crease-free

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2022

News briefs

Mexico officials abused 47% of migrants awaiting US asylum, rights group says

Tribune News Service · Sep 16, 2022

Miami school district says it denied Pulitzer play due to racy scenes. Others say censorship

MIAMI — Days after the Miami-Dade County School District denied students from attending Miami New Drama’s production of Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Anna in the Tropics,” school officials pointed to lines and imagery they considered to be “sexually explicit” or inappropriate for school-aged children.

Miami Herald · Sep 15, 2022

I’m going through hell for the sake of art. Tolstoy or Henry James could learn a thing or two

There’s nothing like recording an audiobook to make you question every word you write. The classics would definitely take a trim

The Guardian - UK · Aug 24, 2022

How Tolstoy hurts Putin's attempt to rewrite history

On April 10, Moscow police arrested Konstantin Goldman for brandishing a book in public. Mr Goldman had posted an image on social media in which he posed holding a copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace next to a section of a World War II monument that commemorates Kyiv's status as…

Bangkok Post · Aug 9, 2022