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In the film of Sinclair’s book, the writer ends up rerouting the story of his great-grandfather’s expedition to the Amazon to its own psychogeographic musings

By Iain Sinclair • Oneworld You can take the author out of Hackney, but you can’t remove Hackney from an Iain Sinclair book, no matter if he is t...

“Everywhere we go they’re saying they don’t have it or they’re booked and we can’t get a COVID test,” said Arthur Sinclair of Waterbury. Wednesday,...

While Robert E. Lee’s decision persists in the popular imagination as one of honor and courage, it would not, I believe, if it is fairly compared with the heroic decision of David G. Farragut.

It’s been a while since the great Hal Holbrook graced the big screen. He showed up on television here and there, and he starred in a handful of indies over the past few years, but it was Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012) that last saw the graceful, gravelly voiced actor reach millions with his charm and eloquence. Holbrook passed recently at the age of ninety-five and leaves behind a filmography filled with memorable turns in fantastic movies. Some of his best-known films/performances inc...

>> part of that was motivated by the war on poverty. part of it was the means to help lemonade african-american poverty. another impulse was the urban rebellions of the mid- late 1960s. the likelihood of people destroying property in those neighborhoods would decrease. all that being said, in doing some preliminary reading, i came across a fleeting reference of a 1949 book on black business to a division of negro affairs. the vision, in fact, was in the coolidge administration. this gr...

thank you for the invitation to be here tonight. dr. west and i are in the mission across the country for the new text for the. rich and the rest of us. when we were asked to consider making one of our stops here, to support this great work, we immediately accepted. in part because we belief in the work that greene is doing and dr. west appeared at the conference before. i was just at the writers conference this year, in fact. as a matter of fact a couple of weeks ago. im back in new y...

>> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> my name is jay, i have the pleasure of working for and representing koch communications. and on behalf of koch communications, we are actually thrilled to kick off c-spans 2012 cities tour. and what better way to do that than for c-span to make what we call -- [inaudible] >> its wichita weekend on booktv. with the help of our koch cable communications partners, well take you around kansas to visit book collections and ta...

today. this program is just over an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> well, welcome to johns hopkins school of advanced international study. i am charles door ran, im the andrew w. melon professor of international relations here at sais. we are absolutely delighted to have you participate in this lively discussion of a very important book, "conquered into liberty: two centuries of battles along the great warpath that made the american way of war." were going to start off with a little...

showing it to raj and warner music, giving him aboard and then getting, you know, doug morris said universal, finally encircling sony. no other ceo would have been so passionate about just, you know, going at people until they finally surrendered. sony is the last holdout. there is a great story told me. he has to surrender. he has to put saudi news again, but the one thing that steve wants is all of dylan because he and the early days found every bootleg tape. totally fanatic. it is ...