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Booker Prize 2021: The Promise by Damon Galgut

estimated reading time: 3 minutes She doesn’t consciously know it but there is a somewhat festive air outside, because yesterday was a public holiday, Youth Day, nineteen years since the Soweto uprising, and today it’s the Rugby World Cup semi-finals, South Africa is playing France later, and the pavements throb and throng with bodies. Never did the middle of town look like this, so many … Continua a leggere Booker Prize 2021: The Promise by Damon Galgut

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Booker Prize 2021: Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed

estimated reading time: 4 minutes They have created a man – no, a Frankenstein’s monster – and branded it with his name before setting it loose. Standing there, shoulders sagging, in the Law Courts, in Cardiff, in Bilad al-Welsh, he feels the blows of their lies like a man shot with arrows. They are blind to Mahmood Hussein Mattan and all his real manifestations: the … Continua a leggere Booker Prize 2021: Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed

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Booker Prize 2021: Bewilderment by Richard Powers

estimated reading time: 4 minutes They share a lot, astronomy and childhood. Both are voyages across huge distances. Both search for facts beyond their grasp. Both theorize wildly and let possibilities multiply without limits. Both are humbled every few weeks. Both operate out of ignorance. Both are mystified by time. Both are forever starting out. Richard Powers’ Bewilderment makes you think, it leaves a mark. … Continua a leggere Booker Prize 2021: Bewilderment by Richard Powers

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Arnulf Rainer e l’Azionismo Viennese

Tempo di lettura: 5 minuti Quando si pensa all’arte degli anni ’50 e ’60 (ma anche oltre) è difficile che qualcuno, storici dell’arte compresi, pensi all’attività e produzione artistica dell’Austria di quegli anni; spesso, infatti, si ricordano solo (con modalità più appropriate a riviste scandalistiche piuttosto che a pubblicazioni scientifiche) le azioni messe in atto dai Wiener Aktionisten, dimenticando tutta la produzione parallela a questo … Continua a leggere Arnulf Rainer e l’Azionismo Viennese

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Booker Prize 2021: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

reading time: 4 minutes “Circles are wondrous because they are endless. Anything endless is wondrous. But endlessness is torture, too. I knew the horizon could never be caught but still chased it. What I have done is foolish; I had no choice but to do it”. Maggie Shipstead’s latest novel, Great Circle (2021), is a good novel. It follows two parallel plotlines, that of aviator … Continua a leggere Booker Prize 2021: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

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Medieval Heritage of Serbia: Studenica, Mother of all Sanctities

Tempo di lettura: 5 minuti Serbia is one of those European countries that is often overlooked. Still, it has a lot of its heritage to offer to curious tourists.One of the most important architectural monuments dating from medieval times is the monastery of Studenica. It is often referred to as the “Mother of all Sanctities.” In it, the Orthodox Church of Serbia got its independence … Continua a leggere Medieval Heritage of Serbia: Studenica, Mother of all Sanctities

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