NPR recently announced that they were revamping NPR.org to better accomadate written content and new mobile formats for better access to its original and in-depth reporting. Could this be the nonprofit organization that will save professionally generated content in the digital future?
Jim Holt follows up his piece in the NY Times Book Review on the joys of memorization with an NPR interview.
Today the Avenues of A, B and C are full of sushi restaurants, cafes and bars that serve martinis for double digit prices. It is a far cry from the place that Miguel Algarin grew up in and remained in. The neighborhood still has its charm that separates it completely from the rest of the [...]
In The Accordionist’s Son, Bernardo Atxaga brings the horrors of recent history to light without diminishing the mysteriously foreign and beautiful world that he has created. And it is another world that Atxaga has created, so particular in the details of both the land and its inhabitants that it feels organic like few fictional worlds [...]
Nick Harkaway’s debut novel, The Gone-Away World, brings magical realism to the post apocalyptic genre. A well written vision for futurists and luddites alike.
In the The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel Salman Rushdie continues to explore his interest in how the supernatural can be brought to life through the power of storytelling. However, he does so without the grandiosely experimental postmodernism of his earlier works.
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