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21.4.24
Latin American authors on rise
14.4.24
Crosswords
Word games are knotty, paradoxical devices. They offer players the illusion of control: What could be tidier than a Scrabble board, or the orderly grid of a crossword puzzle? But they are possible only because language is untamable, flush with connotations and insinuations that we cannot hope to systematize.
No one knows this better than Anna Shechtman, who confronts the waywardness of words both in her capacity as a literature professor at Cornell University and as a contributor of crosswords to the New Yorker. Shechtman was a precocious constructor, as authors of crosswords are called (at least when they are not called, somewhat grandiosely, cruciverbalists); her puzzles were first published in the New York Times when she was in college.[...]
Crossword clues are supposed to draw on “common knowledge,” but who are the proprietors of this mystical article? Is there any such thing? And perhaps most important, can constructors neutralize the chaos of language, with its mad tumult of jostling meanings? Should they even try?
These are some of the questions Shechtman poses in “The Riddles of the Sphinx,” a book too mischievously multiform to classify. Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post
The Riddle of the Sphinx è pubblicato da HarperOne.
7.4.24
The Last Caravaggio
“The Last Caravaggio” shows at the National Gallery, London WC2, from 18 April to 21 July 2024
31.3.24
OLIVETTI
una storia per ragazzini delle elementari che sembra molto carina
24.3.24
Romantasy, AI and Palestinian voices
Future publishing priorities also included sustainability, neurodivergent protagonists and new retellings of Greek mythology. Ella Creamer, The Guardian
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17.3.24
When Marilynne Robinson Reads Genesis
il nuovo libro di Marilynne Robinson si intitola Reading Genesis ed è uscito da Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
10.3.24
The Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages
3.3.24
A Country Shaped By Poetry
In Somaliland, poems were often recited to pass the time by men leading camel trains and by women weaving mats to cover their domed huts. Like the lives of the nomadic people who spoke them, the poems were cyclical. When their speakers moved, they brought their animals and their poetry. At each stop along this annual migration, the women would reuse the verses as they built their thatched homes and the men would recite them as they moved their herds to water.
But poems also served a utilitarian, public purpose: they could be
deployed to argue a court case or to make peace between warring
families. And their lines were powerful in ways few other nations could
understand. In Somaliland, an autonomous region perched at the northern
tip of Somalia, poetry had sparked wars, toppled governments, and
offered paths to peace. Nina Strochlic, Noema
25.2.24
Reading is so sexy
18.2.24
Five of the best books about gossip
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
The play’s title is a triple entendre: in Elizabethan England, “nothing” was slang for “vagina”, and was pronounced as “no-ting”, suggesting “noticing” – a nod to the gossip and eavesdropping that carve the plot. A conversation about Beatrice’s “love” for Benedick is staged for Benedick to overhear, and vice versa, which leads to the pair getting together. Later, Borachio is overheard bragging about tricking Claudio by pretending to woo his love interest, Hero, and is arrested.
questo è uno dei cinque libri sui pettegolezzi consigliati da Ella Creamer, The Guardian