The benefits of reading poetry in a world of muddled meanings
The world we live in is a wasteland of words, but reading poetry reminds us that language can be used with precision and ...
Before Sunrise is back in cinemas – and, 30 years on, it’s far sadder than it used to be
Richard Linklater’s rapturous 1995 romance about Interrailing strangers – played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy – once felt ...
Pheidippides: The Athenian messenger who inspired the marathon
Conveyed as an epic poem, this new account of the origin of the marathon consigns other versions to history’s landfill.
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It’s a new year. Let’s resolve to rethink what ‘self-help’ means.
They are things not created for any other reason than that the writer, the poet, the musician couldn’t help but put them down ... Why don’t we remember our best selves at 4:19 in the ...
We must teach people not to forget the Holocaust. Then we can say never again. | Opinion
Seventeen million souls deprived of the right to experience life. Anyone who views the Holocaust as a Jewish problem is ...
Jewish Press18h
Covenant & Conversation: Parshat Beshallach: Music, Language of the Soul
Rashi, explaining the view of Rabbi Nehemiah in the Talmud [1] that they spontaneously sang the song together, says that the Holy Spirit rested on them and miraculously the same words came into their ...
Michael D Higgins leads tributes to Michael Longley: ‘One of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced’
Michael Longley will be recognised as one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced, and it has long been my ...
The Paris Review15d
Prof. Dr. A. I. in Conversation with Tadeusz Dąbrowski
Tadeusz Dąbrowski on stage at the Shakespeare Theatre in Gdansk, Poland.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency16d
Where was God in the Holocaust? A NY poet and activist asks the question in a book of ‘psalms’
Can the survivors and the generations of Jews who came after them still ... film reads a poem about her refugee parents — nevertheless sees hope in the ways poets use art to remember the Holocaust.
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Where was God in the Holocaust? A NY poet and activist asks the question in a book of ‘psalms’
(photo credit: NEW YORK JEWISH WEEK) Of the 150 psalms in the book known in Hebrew as “Tehillim,” the 23rd may be the best ...
The National8d
A look at pre-Union poems in praise of Scottish cities and others
WRITING in Latin, the Scottish poet Arthur Johnstone (c1579-1641), has a series of pre-Union poems in praise of Scottish cities, taking them each ...