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Javed Akhtar: Embrace English But Don’t Abandon Mother Tongue
JAIPUR – At the 2025 Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), celebrated lyricist, screenwriter, and poet Javed Akhtar unveiled his ...
Marianne Faithfull’s 10 Greatest Musical Moments
The musical career of Marianne Faithfull, who died today at 78, is as seasoned and diverse as her inimitable voice. Here are ...
The New Yorker2h
A Song on Porcelain
Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now ...
Marianne Faithfull’s 10 Most Essential Songs (Critic’s Picks)
She played God on a British sitcom and remains a god for many singer-songwriters.
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San Diego Poet Laureate Paola Capó-García says poetry is a 'thriving thing'
San Diego has named Paola Capó-García as its third Poet Laureate since the program began in 2020. A former journalist and ...
Marianne Faithfull, voice of Britain's Swinging '60s, dies at 78
Marianne Faithfull, the wild woman of London's Swinging '60s who survived drug addiction, homelessness, two comas, cancer and ...
Washington Square News12h
Review: In ‘English,’ the fight to learn a new language perseveres
In this classroom, only English is spoken. The teacher, Marjan (Marjan Neshat), enforces this rule harshly — if you speak any other language, you get a tally mark. At five tallies, you are asked to ...
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The listening gift
It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine ...