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    Jul 8, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Review: Jim Holt's compelling 'Why Does the World Exist?'

    <strong>Why Does the World Exist?</strong>
    -------------------- Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story Jim Holt Liveright: 310 pp., $27.95 -------------------- "How old is the Universe?" Kurt Vonnegut asked in his 1973 novel "Breakfast of Champions." "It is one half-second...

    Tags: Religion and Belief, Philosophy, Arts and Culture, John Updike, Science and Technology

    2. May 28, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. The stitching hour

    Fashion students get used to pulling all-nighters in the studio as deadlines approach.
    Fashion students get used to pulling all-nighters in the studio as deadlines approach. But heading into the 11th annual Driehaus Awards for Fashion Excellence recently, Maribel Dinwiddie thought she could rest easy, knowing her last loose thread had been...

    Tags: Graduation, Entertainment Events, The Wall Street Journal, Teaching and Learning, Fashion Trends

    3. Jul 3, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Critic's Notebook: Under the influence of Hemingway

    For much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises" in high school and had admired its spare portrayal of 1920s expatriate life. But I'd also thought of it as more than a little stilted, even melodramatic in its way.
    Los Angeles Times Book Critic
    For much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises"...

    Tags: Petroleum Industry, Arts and Culture, Raymond Carver, Facebook, Richard Ford

    4. May 1, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Film Independent announces lineup for Los Angeles Film Festival

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    "Magic Mike," Steven Soderbergh's dramatic comedy set in the world of male strippers, will have its world premiere as the closing night program of the Los Angeles Film Festival next month. The film, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Channing Tatum,...
    5. Dec 6, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Music review: Monday Evening Concerts premieres Kurtag's Beckett

    Culture Monster
    Mark Swed reviews the terrifying and cathartic performance of baritone Nicholas Isherwood in the Monday Evening Concerts U.S. premiere of György Kurtág’s “…pas á pas – nulle part....”...
    6. Jan 4, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Albert Camus died on this day in 1960

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    When French writer Albert Camus was killed in a car wreck 52 years ago, he was carrying a manuscript that would be published only decades later....
    7. Feb 11, 2012 | Chicago Tribune

  7. Goodness! (Continued)

    Change of Subject
    The conclusion of Who Needs God?, the post by writer, lecturer and broadcaster Kenan Malik that touched off a good discussion here the other day, ought to spark more reflection: I want to finish this talk with French Algerian existential......
    8. Sep 4, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
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    9. Jul 14, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. Theatre Y offers imaginative look into outcasts

    <strong>"Exiles"</strong>
    "Exiles" *** Until this spring, Chicago's Theatre Y focused exclusively on Romanian playwright Andras Visky, with productions of "Juliet: A Dialogue About Love" and "I Killed My Mother," both of which have toured internationally. But the company...

    Tags: James Joyce, Human Interest, Andy Warhol, Republic of Ireland, Marilyn Monroe

    10. Jul 30, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Henry Carlisle dies at 84; author, translator helped bring Solzhenitsyn's work to Western audiences

    Henry Carlisle, a San Francisco author, translator and former editor who with his wife helped bring two works<b> </b>by <a href="http://lat.ms/r3Fsel">Alexander Solzhenitsyn</a> to Western audiences, has died. He was 84.
    Henry Carlisle, a San Francisco author, translator and former editor who with his wife helped bring two works by Alexander Solzhenitsyn to Western audiences, has died. He was 84. Carlisle died of complications from pneumonia July 11 in San Francisco,...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Nobel Prize Awards, Elections, Book, Crime, Law and Justice

    11. Aug 10, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  11. C'est vrai? Camus was killed by the KGB?

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    Did the KGB cause the car wreck that killed Albert Camus?...
    12. May 22, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  12. Summer reading: The big list

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    Choice summer reads selected by the book editors at the L.A. Times...
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