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Donald Trump is about to become the first ex-US president to face a criminal trial, and a New York judge overseeing his upcoming hush money trial has hit him with a gag order. Indeed, New York judge Juan Merchan has barred Trump from attacking – or directing others to attack – potential witnesses, jurors, prosecutors or court staff. Which is going to be a tall order, for anyone familiar with Trump’s particular brand of... well, being. This comes as Trump has faced a serious money woes amid mounting legal bills while he fights four criminal indictments along with a series of civil charges. He w...
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A quarter of US citizens are expected to journey to various locations where the eclipse can be seen at its most complete - not to mention the legions of skygazers planning to travel in from abroad. But why is this event, which will happen again in 2044, getting so much attention, with live coverage already confirmed across popular news and streaming platforms for those who can’t make the trip? Well, aside from taking place in a part of the world known for its ability to promote almost any event so long as it can turn a buck, a brief look at how eclipses have featured in art and literature migh...
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Gabriel García Márquez’s two sons disregarded their father's wishes not to publish his last work of fiction posthumously, but judging by the reaction to "Until August", they perhaps should have listened to him. Reviews of the book, which was published ten years after García Márquez’s death in 2014, have veered from being barely kind to others which said it did have a few merits. However, despite the generally bad press, this literary episode has raised the question of whether precious works of renowned writers should see the light of day, even against their wishes. Is published and be damned a...
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Hollywood loves to mine literature as source material for its films, and this year’s Best Picture nominees show the habit is front and centre. Five of the 10 Best Pictures are based on books - three novels and two works of historical nonfiction. That’s significantly more than previous years, and serves as a reminder that a film’s success always comes back to words on a page. Without writers and scriptwriters, there wouldn’t be much to watch or celebrate in the seventh art. Films need directors and actors; they’re made in the editing room; but whether original or adapted, they originate from th...
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Every so often, the poetry community is solicited by eager journalists who want to know whether poetry as an art form is making a comeback. But if you ask Steven J Fowler, an English poet and founder of the European Poetry Festival in the UK, the question is moot. “There's an article written every six months by a journalist saying poetry is coming back,” Stephen J Fowler tells Euronews Culture. “But there's no context about where it went.” For Fowler, poetry is an endless recurrence, making its way up and down and back again. But he will allow that European poetry is currently experiencing an ...
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Book lovers rejoice! The Irish writer Sally Rooney, who captured the hearts and minds of millennials everywhere with ‘Normal People’ will be back with her fourth novel later this year. ‘Intermezzo’ will be released by Rooney’s long standing publisher Faber & Faber on 24 September 2024. It will follow the lives of two brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek. When their father dies, the Koubek brothers are rocked by the loss. Peter, a lawyer in Dublin, breaks from his previously unassailable character, begins self-medicating and struggles to maintain relationships between two women, his enduring first l...
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Whether he’s shocking audiences with his unique perspectives on black comedy or paving the way for LGBTQ+ advocacy in cinema, US director John Waters remains one of the most influential living filmmakers. From raunchy satires (Serial Mom, Female Trouble), classic musical films (Cry-Baby, Hairspray), and did-he-just-do-that? cult trash (Multiple Maniacs, Desperate Living, Pink Flamingos), the pencil-line moustachioed pioneer of all things transgressive has never hesitated in pushing deep, dark boundaries. Now, Waters, 77, is reportedly returning to the director’s chair, 20 years since his last ...
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In 2021, Matt Kirkland, a web designer based just outside of Kansas City, started a daily online newsletter based around Bram Stoker’s epistolary novel ‘Dracula’. We all know the titular character synonymous with all vampiric imaginings, yet comparatively few people these days have read the original 1897 book. To Kirkland, who re-read it in 2020, reproducing the novel through bitesize chunks via a daily newsletter made perfect sense. The novel is, after all, written through a collection of letters, articles and diary entries all dated between 3 May and 10 November. BookTok influencers: Revolut...
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From left to right: Alexis Kagame, screenshot from, ‘Amateka n’ amabanga ya Padiri ALEXIS KAGAME: Menya ukuri‘. Fair use. Scholastique Mukasonga, Immaculée Ilibagiza and Yolande Mukagasana, images from Wikimedia Commons. (CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED and CC BY 4.0 DEED). Rwanda is a beautiful nation in the heart of Africa within the Great Rift Valley, where the African Great Lakes region and southeast Africa converge. It takes pride in a rich literary history, with esteemed authors and poets who have dedicated their work to preserving Rwanda's history, heritage, culture, language, and future. Rwanda has ...
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Rie Kudan, the winner of Japan's most prestigious literary prize, has explained that part of her new book has a unique ghostwriter: ChatGPT. The 33-year-old author, whose latest novel "Tokyo-to Dojo-to" wowed the Akutagawa jury, who found it "so perfect that it is difficult to find fault with it", revealed at the prize giving ceremony that she had "used the full potential of AI to write this book.” She explained that "around 5% of the book is made up of sentences generated by AI", quoted word for word. The author confessed that conversing frequently with the AI allowed her to confide her most ...
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