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As I grew into adulthood, what I couldn’t find in literature was the world as I saw it — the psychological and cultural truths that bound my personal experience.
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As I grew into adulthood, what I couldn’t find in literature was the world as I saw it — the psychological and cultural truths that bound my personal experience.
In “Five Lessons for the world from Calabash International Literary Festival,” Baz Dreisinger (Forbes, 20 June 2023) offers the pros and cons (mostly the former) of Jamaica’s premier literary festival. I never should have told you about Calabash. Thanks to big-mouthed people like me, the heavenly literary festival, 22 years ago a gathering of 300 people…
Sipping my fresh mint tea, I gaze across rooftops bowed by age to distant viridian hills, and ponder Seamus Heaney’s precise, radiant words. Medicine has rarely
The gifting of a first edition collection of Frost’s work to PM Modi may be emblematic of the poet’s stature in American literary life, but much before that Frost had found an admirer in India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Art of the City: Painter explores memory and the binational experience at NTC studio residency