Saturday, April 28, 2018

Boos and Bravos: Winner Of This Year’s Pulitzer For Fiction Tells You About All The Cold Rivers He Almost Wrote

Young men should prove theorems,” a mentor told a young Freeman Dyson. “Old men should write books.” Now 94, Dyson is following that advice Hotest Ideas Coldest Rivers »

The Australian academic Clive Hamilton has told a US congressional committee China is waging a “campaign of psychological warfare” against Australia, as America's most significant ally in the region, undermining democracy and cowing free speech ...

'China wages psychological warfare on Australia,' warns academic during address to US committee


 'Hi, I'm Mike': Trump's new secretary of state confirmed

Kelly O'Dwyer's stunning backflip


IT was the trainwreck interview that no Australian politician would want to ever repeat.

You've probably never heard of Malcolm Turnbull's most intriguing minister

David Littleproud is strapped in the back of a tiny six-seater Beechcraft Baron as it descends into the historic town of Tambo. The taxpayer-funded charter might be an expensive way to get around but only if you ignore the colossal challenge of representing Maranoa, an outback Queensland seat that is three times the size of ...

Winner Of This Year’s Pulitzer For Fiction Tells You About All The Novels He Almost Wrote

Andrew Sean Greer: "I think every novelist has a list of novels they never wrote - and never plan to write. Some are impossible dreams. Some are good ideas over a bad bottle of wine. And some are, let's admit it, just bad ideas. Really bad ideas. So for what it's worth, a little advice ..." … Read More



Boos and Bravos

  Quitting a Bad Habit: Germany to Massively Restrict Monsanto Weedkiller Sputnik News 


 The Meanest Things Vladimir Nabokov Said About Other Writers | Literary Hub

For what it's worth (probably very little), I disagree about Eliot and Conrad and Camus. He's certainly right about Lady Chatterly, though Lawrence wrote good poetry and short stories. Faulkner also wrote some good stories. I once took Auden to task for a translation of Hölderlin, but I love his poetry. I think he is utterly right about Freud and Pound.

How Art Was (Mostly) Protected During World War II

In London, the Elgin Marbles were hidden in Aldwych tube station – although, alarmingly, it was later revealed it wouldn’t have withstood a direct hit. In Paris, the Louvre was emptied out in 1939, with 3,600 paintings packed off to safe houses. The Mona Lisa – now considered too fragile to be moved – was shuttled round the country five times, moving from chateau to abbey to chateau, to keep her one step ahead of the Nazis. … Read More

 

 Trailblazing Google Unveils Book-Talking AI: A new artificial intelligence experiment from Google, Talk to Books, can answer questions by pulling relevant sentences from books.



Sydney Writers' Festival

From Monday 30 April to Sunday 6 May, our brightest academics along with big international novelists, high profile Australian writers, and memoir-mode politicians will all appear at Carriageworks and the Seymour Centre as part of the recently revamped Sydney Writers' Festival.





TEDxSydney

Bear witness to the ideas that are changing the world. Meet like-minded and curious people. Learn new things and be inspired. Tickets for 2018 TEDxSydney, taking place on Friday 15 June, are now on sale.