Punjabi literature

How Our Bodies Protect Our Brains

No longer do scientists consider the brain to be a special, sealed-off zone. “This whole idea of immune privilege is quite outdated now. - Nature

Report: Australia is heading to Qatar for their fifth successive World Cup finals appearance after coach Graham Arnold’s penalty shootout gamble succeeded in dramatic style when substitute goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne dived to his right to save Alex Valera’s spot-kick to send the Socceroos to Qatar 2022:

Australia will be in Group D of the 2022 World Cup, alongside Denmark, France and Tunisia. It’s eerily similar to their 2018 World Cup group of France, Denmark and Peru.

Australia will play France (all times AEDT) at 4am Wednesday, November 23; Tunisia at 7pm on Saturday, November 26 and Denmark at midnight Thursday, December 1.

Can you be really an Artist if yo do not suffer?- The Ethical Versus Aesthetic Life Elif Batuman’s novel Either/Or asks if you really have to suffer to be an artist.

CAN I BECOME A WRITER WITHOUT ACTUALLY WRITING?

Rob Long has a piece on writers procrastinating by giving talks on writing. 

“Writers, in general, love giving these talks, love giving advice, because it’s as close to writer-ish activity as you can get without actually having to write, which is something that all writers, or at least all honest writers, hate.” (via Prufrock

Anonymity Can Be A Real Gift To Playwrights

Sure, "the argument could be made that this is a canny marketing strategy, a way of drumming up publicity for a play, but it could also be the case that anonymity allow the author to push the material further, to be more candid, to expose themselves." - The Stage...

       Geetanjali Shree Q & A 

       At Deutsche Welle Manasi Gopalakrishnan has a Q & A with Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree on Hindi literature(and her prize-winning novel, Tomb of Sand). 

       Punjabi literature 

       Hindi literature just got a nice big boost with Daisy Rockwell's English translation of Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand winning the International Booker Prize, but literature in a lot of other Indian languages also deserves more attention than it's gotten, and in Outlook Ashutosh Sharma notes that Lost Without Translation, Punjabi Yearns For Global Publishers. 

 Sebald Lecture 

       The Sebald Lecture will be given tomorrow, by Lydia Davis -- and you can watch live online, if you register. 
       Davis will be:

reflecting back over her distinguished career as a translator from French, and discussing her recent collection Essays Two, about translation and foreign language-learning.

       Fernanda Melchor Q & A 

       In The Nation Lucas Iberico Lozada has a Q & A with the author, in Raw Speech, Raw Stories: A Conversation With Fernanda Melchor. 
       Melchor also describes her work on the Netflix show Somos:

LIL: What was your job on the show ? 

FM: Executive translator. (Laughs) I’ve worked on a bunch of shows that haven’t been green-lit. The official title for my role is “tropicalization consultant.” I take scripts and “show bibles” that have been written by gringos, or by whitexicans, and I give them a patina of reality. That authentic working-class Mexican sheen -- that’s what they want. I find the work fascinating. And occasionally very fun.

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       Geetanjali Shree Q & A 

       At Deutsche Welle Manasi Gopalakrishnan has a Q & A with Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree on Hindi literature(and her prize-winning novel, Tomb of Sand). 

Kafka's drawings are objectively strong and aesthetically riveting, but they don't rival his best writing Kafka 

1. “Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t think they should have a lever that allows any old idiot to divert the whole group of us to Westport on a whim” — the trolley is reviewed
2. New: IPM Monthly – Medieval Philosophy Today — a site for news, opportunities, publication notices, profiles of philosophers, etc., related to medieval philosophy
3. “What I loved about the history of jazz—namely, that subtle changes to chord sequences and key changes could reframe the entire realm of possibilities for musicians in the future—was also a feature of the history of philosophy” — philosopher Andrea Pitts (UNC Charlotte) is interviewed about their life and work in philosophy, with a particular focus on social identities
4. What is the value of studying moral dilemmas? — an exchange between Paul Conway (Portsmouth) and Guy Kahane (Oxford)
5. “A great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by the belief in the virtuousness of work” — Bertrand Russell on the value of leisure and its “wise use,” in a 1932 issue of Harper’s (via The Browser). It was Russell’s 150th birthday this past Wednesday.
6. “If spectacular forms of white supremacy were to end tomorrow, whiteness as a structure of privilege, power and hegemony would continue” — George Yancy (Emory) on how “white-perpetrated, anti-Black murder is all too acceptable, consistent and inoffensive to the very fabric of this nation”
7. “Passing is not without costs: it takes a significant emotional and psychological toll, both on individuals who pass and on the friends and family they may leave behind” — Meena Krishnamurthy (Queen’s) on the “burdened virtue” of racial passing