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news My heart is in Zimbabwe! The Standard Letter from America:with KENNETH MUFUKA As we pass from the year 2020, let us establish some home-grown truths about ourselves as Zimbabweans. While I will challenge our readers to this debate, on penalty of paying a fine of a goat if the reader loses his bet, I have set about proper safeguards against losing my shirt as I previously did in the Donald Trump election of November 3, 2020. The challenge is this. It is obvious to me, and I...

By Heather Clark What becomes a legend most? As suggested by the old black-and-white Blackglama fur ads, featuring Lena Horne, Diana Vreeland and Cher, among others, legends are people who have soared beyond fame or celebrity into a more rarefied, inaccessible stratosphere. Today’s media-fixated, Kardashian-dominated world is filled with all sorts of legends, from the elevated to the base, but I can think of few poets who fit into this category. The exception is Sylvia Plath, who, with her...

Between Realism and Something Else: An Interview with Ron Nyren "I loved researching this book, finding out about chronophotography, pictorialism, the 1906 earthquake, and the artists of the time." Ron Nyren talks with Margot Livesey about his debut novel, The Book of Lost Light. When I suggested to Ron Nyren that we have a conversation about his absorbing debut novel, The Book of Lost Light, I realized that I could no longer remember when he and I first met. Our lives were already intertwin...

about people of other sexual preferences who may have already found themselves kind of askew or outside of conventional life. but what i want to do today a little bit is talk about, um, the ongoing power of this classic. and i recently taught this book to my undergrads at nyu, a couple of who are here in this audience, who do not ever hesitate to tell me if something is boring,er v.a. relevant, dated, no longer worthy of their important attention. [laughter] so it was actually kind of ...

goddess examines hillary clintons role in u.s. diplomacy broad followed by jeffrey frank whose book "ike and dick." and we conclude tonights prime time programming at 11:15 eastern with michelle rhee. the former d.c. public schools chancellor writes about education reform in her book, "radical: fighting to put students first." that all happens tonight on c-span2s booktv. >> bethty friedans "the feminine mystique" was published in 1963. it would play an sweggal role in the second wave o...

about how were going to dig ourselves out. >> i know ive been working. its been very bad the last few years in the cleveland area. the last few years its been very steady for me. >> ifill: paul solman profiles economist paul krugman. he has a new book out called "end this depression now." >> were spending more time on things were used to like educating our children and fixing the holes in our roads. when is the time? >> brown: and we close with a look at the complicated life story of r...

and grand kids with debt. just really, really concerned about how were going to dig ourselves out. >> i know ive been working. its been very bad the last few years in the cleveland area. the last few years its been very steady for me. >> ifill: paul solman profiles economist paul krugman. he has a new book t called "end this depression now." >> were spending more time on things were used to like educating our children and fixing the holes in our roads. when is the time? >> brown: and w...

just really, really concerned about how were going to dig ourselves out. >> i know ive been working. its been very bad the last few years in the cleveland area. the last few years its been very steady for me. >> ifill: paul solman profiles economist paul krugman. he has a new book out called "end this depression now." >> were spending more time on things were used to like educating our children and fixing the holes in our roads. when is the time? >> brown: and we close with a look at t...

just really, really concerned about how were going to dig ourselves out. >> i know ive been working. its been very bad the last few years in the cleveland area. the last few years its been very steady for me. >> ifill: paul solman profiles economist paul krugman. he has a new book out called "end this depression now." >> were spending more time on things were used to like educating our children and fixing the holes in our roads. when is the time? >> brown: and we close with a look at t...

about how were going to dig ourselves out. >> i know ive been working. its been very bad the last few years in the cleveland area. the last few years its been very steady for me. >> ifill: paul solman profiles economist paul krugman. he has a new book out called "end this depression now." >> were spending more time on things were used to like educating our children and fixing the holes in our roads. when is the time? >> brown: and we close with a look at the complicated life story of r...