POETRY MONDAY: January 7, 2019

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 7, 2019January 10, 2019 Literature

Patty Crane

A happy, healthy and hopeful New Year, everyone. We have a delightful poetry surprise for you this morning. Although we have featured poets who are also translators, I know that we haven’t yet had poems in Swedish. Since this is an international website, I also know that those of you who are Swedish speakers yourselves must of course be familiar with the work of Nobel prize-winning poet, Tomas Tranströmer. His volume of selected Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: January 7, 2019

Brain scans show social exclusion creates jihadists, say researchers

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 6, 2019January 7, 2019 Politics

Click Here to Read: Brain scans show social exclusion creates jihadists, say researchers: International studies of young Muslim men show that radicalisation follows a sense of isolation from society by Mark Townsend on the Guardian website on January 6, 2019.
Two armed Iraqi insurgents from northern Iraq, belonging to a faction of the Iraqi insurgency, which carries out attacks on American and coalition forces. Photo: بدر الإسلام Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

James Baldwin’s Harlem Through a Child’s Eyes

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 6, 2019January 6, 2019 Literature

Click Here to Read: James Baldwin’s Harlem Through a Child’s Eyes by
Gabrielle Bellot on The New York Review of Books website on Januar 3, 2019.

Aharon Appelfeld, a Memory

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 6, 2019 Literature

Click Here to Read: Aharon Appelfeld, a Memory: One year after the death of the great writer, his humanity still shines By Natalia A. Feduschak on the Tablet website on January 4, 2019.

Short Cuts

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 5, 2019January 5, 2019 Politics

Click Here to Read: Short Cuts by Billy Beswick in the London Review of Books Vol. 41 No. 1 · 3 January 2019.

West Gate of Peking University. A HDR photo. Photo: 維基小霸王 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.