Harold Pinter’s Nobel Lecture is live on the Nobel Prize site. There’s also a link to a 46 minute video of him reading his lecture. He couldn’t make the ceremony.
Very very worth the time to sit and listen to it. Or read it.
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My dad always maintained that the Greek gods were alive and kicking after all these years, but he never told me they were in New York!
Well, according to “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” a children’s fantasy novel written by Rick Riordan the Greek gods migrated from Mount Olympus to the US because […]
What fun! Another Julia Kristeva novel, Murder in Byzantium
From the Columbia University Press website:
Murder in Byzantium
A Novel
Julia Kristeva
Translated by C. Jon Delogu
“This is a novel of which we have not seen the like since Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose”
—Bernard-Henri Levy, Le Point
“Julia Kristeva gives us a stimulating, joyous book. In a word, […]
Description of Dating Aphrodite: Modern Adventures in the Ancient World by Luke Slattery
‘Greece has a profound and permanent message to mankind; it is humane and progressive and affects not only art but the whole of life.’ Australian classicist Gilbert Murray
‘Dating Aphrodite’ is a modern celebration of the classics of ancient Greece and ancient Rome […]
"Feasting with Archestratus," a feature story on what the ancient Greeks thought was good to eat, in Odyssey magazine (Nov/Dec 2007).
My poem "Seduction" published in Wetink, Issue 7, Winter 2007
"Alexander's Enduring Myth," a review of two books about the legendary king and conqueror, in Odyssey magazine (May/June 2007).
"Reconstructing the Past," my feature on archaeological restoration in Greece explores the debate about how far restorations should go in the name of making ancient monuments more comprehensible to the public, in Odyssey magazine (Nov/Dec 2006).
My short story "A Silly Little Thing" in the See You Next Tuesday anthology of 50 sex-texts.
"Particles of Truth," my interview with particle physicist Maria Spiropulu in Odyssey magazine (Sept/Oct 2006).
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