“This literary detective story began in the summer of 2009, when Jean-Christophe Cloutier, a doctoral candidate in English and comparative literature, was working as an intern in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia. He was going through more than 50 boxes of materials belonging to Samuel Roth, a kind of literary pariah who died in 1974.” And voilà ! A new book by Claude McKay.
Author: ArtsJournal2
The President’s Speech: Code-Switching’s How And Why
“While Mr. Obama’s linguistic flexibility is a political asset, his style-shifting is not without its critics. There are some who read his ‘chameleon-like’ speaking skills as not quite authentic, or as slightly patronizing — a sort of linguistic pandering.”
When The Puppet Is A 120-Pound Horse, Who’s Controlling Whom?
In the stage version of War Horse, Joey “is a very intricately hand-crafted puppet that takes three puppeteers to operate at all times.” And sometimes he doesn’t want to be operated exactly right.
An Architect’s Career Founders On The Sharp Shoals Of War
During WWII, “you didn’t need to live in the West to be touched by the hand of fear, as Yasuo Matsui found out. Even though he had lived here for four decades, designed one of New York’s tallest buildings and ran a major construction company, the Japanese-born architect was rousted out of bed on the night of the Pearl Harbor attack, held at Ellis Island for two months and spent the war under house arrest.”
Film Of Midnight’s Children May Not Be Screened In India
The director of the adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s famous novel says no Indian film company has picked it up for distribution.
Dance That’s Not About The Body – But What The Body Can Do
Indian classical dancer Manjari Chaturvedi says she doesn’t care about beauty. Her “startling pronouncement — a dancer, shunning physical beauty? — puts her in rare company. Especially when she goes on to say that she’s uninterested in impressing audiences with her technical mastery or complicated rhythms.”
Architect Lino Bo Bardi Made Buildings ‘Shaped By Love’
The Italian/Brazilian Bo Bardi, who died in 1992, “was strong-willed and passionate,” could work with any material including stage sets – and should be an icon for a generation of architects dealing with economic crises and poverty.
Puppets And The Dark Side Of (Indonesian) LIfe
Puppeteer Maria Tri Sulistyani of Indonesia’s Papermoon Puppet Theatre, which is touring the U.S., says “we are telling stories about values – about moral choices and conflicts and relating to everyday life. Our stories are really personal and focus on individuals. From there we can see the bigger issues.”
Google TV Reboots. Is That Enough?
The original Google TV was an epic fail. The giant company’s new version? Well …
Is Graffiti In The Wake Of The Arab Spring Art Or Vandalism?
One graffiti artist, who recently spray-painted a mosque’s minaret: “Graffiti are now associated with positive political action, so I think they have become acceptable on many levels. As an expression of the freedom that people have fought and died for, they have become a legitimised form of art for many.”