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Classical review: West, Collon, RPO, Cadogan Hall, London
London :: United Kingdom | 26 days ago
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Suggested Topics Ever since Bartok, Stravinsky, and Prokofiev hit their respective jackpots, composers have reserved the right to turn their ballets and operas into concert suites. The suite which Tarik O'Regan has extrapolated from his chamber opera
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AUDIO: Apocalypse Now's 'surfing legacy'
Manila :: Philippines | 1 month ago
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Apocalypse Now's 'surfing legacy' 15 April 2013 Last updated at 02:42 ET It is nearly 35 years since Francis Ford Coppola's transposed Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness to the madness and mayhem of the Vietnam War and called it Apocalypse Now...
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Achebe's best legacy lies in helping African writers tell their own stories
Lagos :: Nigeria | 1 month ago
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Rating In Summary It was while re-reading Achebe's essay An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness that I realised that not much has changed since Conrad published his book in 1950. There is a coffee table book titled Black Ladies that
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Writing another Africa
Conrad :: IA :: USA | 1 month ago
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And the question is whether a novel which celebrates this dehumanisation, which depersonalises a portion of the human race, can be called a great work of art...Subsequent to that, it is hard to come across any writing on Conrad's Heart of Darkness
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Guardian Artangel Books podcast: Colm Toibin in A Room For London
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
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In the final dispatch from A Room for London an installation in the shape of the boat in Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness Colm Toibin leafs through a log book compiled by visitors over the year, and reads a short story written during his
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Adonis in A Room for London
Aleppo :: Syria | 6 months ago
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In the latest dispatch from A Room for London a hotel installation in the shape of the boat in Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness we hear from Syrian poet and perennial Nobel contender Adonis...Shakespeare, Eliot, Conrad himself - all of whom
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89ers lend support to S. Dakota teen battling cancer
Sendai :: Japan | 6 months ago
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The Sendai 89ers are lending a helping hand to a 17-year-old South Dakota student's fight against cancer. Halfway around the world, Conrad Adam, a high school basketball player, has his own team of supporters, the 89ers. In fact, they are part of a
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Kamila Shamsie in A Room for London
London :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
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In the latest dispatch from A Room for London a hotel installation in the shape of the boat in Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness we hear from the Pakistanti novelist Kamila Shamsie...For Shamsie, the task throws up questions about the
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A reward for Mr. Naipaul
Ayodhya :: India | 6 months ago
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The Hindu Honouring Sir Vidia for lifetime achievement means affirming not just his great craft but also his idea of India With the Mumbai Literary Festival recently honouring V.S. Naipaul for lifetime achievement, the ironies of rewarding Naipaul's
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Election 2012, Super-Storm Sandy and the Third-World-ification of America
Devastation as far as the eye can see, millions in cities and towns without electricity, without potable water, without fuel and heat and decent sanitation; and the looming prospect of looting and violent protest and
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