Until relatively recently, Shakespeare’s contact with the scientific world has gone largely unnoticed both among scholars and general audiences. Perhaps Shakespeare scholars and audiences don’t notice the way he takes up science because they are unfamiliar with much of the science he was exposed to, while most scientists don’t see Shakespeare as valuable for reflecting on science because they assume he was unfamiliar with it.
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What’s Radical About This New Translation Of The New Testament
“[David Bentley] Hart’s stated aim is to offer an ‘almost pitilessly literal translation’ that is ‘not shaped by later theological and doctrinal history’, with the intention of making ‘the familiar strange, novel, and perhaps newly compelling’. … One of his most pointed observations relates to the stark contrast between the conservative and socially compliant nature of many modern Christians and the disturbing character of the first converts … These are people, he wryly observes, whom ‘most of us would find fairly obnoxious: civically reprobate, ideologically unsound, economically destructive, politically irresponsible, socially discreditable’.”
Modern Standard Arabic – The Language That Unites The Arab World – Is Fading
“Arabs often see MSA’s decline as the failure of their nations to uphold the legacy of Arabic, the language of the Qur’an and Islam. Though some rejoice in the strengthening of vernaculars, the so-called colloquials or dialects, as a sign of local identities gaining prominence, the withdrawal of MSA is in fact a warning about the weakening social infrastructure and declining education system.”
I’m A Minor Writer. I’m Okay With That
“There is no shame in being a minor writer. Some of my favorite writers were, in their day, considered minor writers: Nathanael West, Charles Bukowski, Mikhail Lermontov, Blaise Cendrars, Flann O’Brien, and even Gertrude Stein. It is an honorable way to make a living. Certainly I’ve done less damage to the forests of America than my better-selling peers. And while a major writer can be reassessed and reduced in stature in posterity, for a minor writer, there is only potential upside.”
What’s Up With The Gender Imbalance In Britain’s Comedy Writing Prize?
The Wodehouse prize is 18 years old, or just about as old as this millennium, and it’s been given to men 15 times. Marian Keyes, who’s sold 33 million comedic books, says she’s never been shortlisted and wonders what women have to do to get noticed by the mostly male judges (who insist, of course, they only pick the best – and who picked no one in 2018).
What It Means For A Writer To Attain Global Fame
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “called Americanah her ‘fuck-you book,’ by which she meant she no longer felt that she must be a dutiful literary daughter responsible for her country’s history: she would write what she felt like. Her first two novels had been written in the voices of characters who were younger and more naïve than she; the protagonist of Americanah, a young woman named Ifemelu, would be her equal.”
What Do You Do When Sarah Jessica Parker, ‘Sex And The City’ Star, Wants To Publish Your Novel?
Duh, you say yes. Fatima Farheen Mirza had just landed in New York when the actor called to say she wanted Mirza to have the first novel with Parker’s new imprint at Hogarth. “I was stunned during our conversation, because she spoke so thoughtfully about the very scenes that meant the most to me in the book and I felt so comforted that she understood what those scenes meant to the characters, to me.”
The Rise Of Audiobooks Snags Famous Authors For Audio-Only Options
Audible, which is owned by behemoth Amazon, has a surprising new author in its fold: Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and The Blind Side. Lewis has been a contributing author to Vanity Fair for decades – but Audible has now poached him for four audio-only stories. “Lewis — arguably one of the most successful nonfiction writers working today, with book sales topping 10 million copies — is betting Audible will expand his audience and draw even more people to his work.” And he’s not alone.
Walt Whitman Got Rejected From ‘The Atlantic’ For Being Too Timely
That’s right, “1861” was a little too 1861 to publish in 1861. “There’s something problematic about asking our art to be of the ‘moment’ (or declaring, after the fact, that it is), or demanding that it fit into one of two boxes: being about politics or an escape from it. Art is and should be more complicated than that.”
What Makes Romance Matter To The New York Times Right Now?
In a rather hostile between-Times critics interview, the new romance reviewer says, “Romance is one of the biggest genres in publishing. That’s unfortunately been part of why, I think, it’s so often written off. The Times covering romance is an important recognition that these books are a vital part of literary culture. Some readers stick to romance, but plenty of romance readers — including myself — read it among many other genres. And we read The New York Times, too.”