Entries from Dante Today (Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin) tagged with 'Newspapers'
"Men Behaving Oddly"
"Robert Cohen's Amateur Barbarians raises the question of whether the novel of male midlife crisis is suffering a midlife crisis of its own... "If we exempt from consideration the Dante of The Divine Comedy, who finds himself lost in...
"Young Idols With Cleavers Rule the Stage"
"The roots of the butcher as an icon of cool might be found in the writings of Bill Buford, who fashioned an operatic meat hero out of Dario Cecchini, a towering, Dante-spouting butcher from the Chianti countryside. Mr. Buford...
Nick Reding, Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town (2009)
"Think globally, suffer locally. This could be the moral of Methland, Nick Reding's unnerving investigative account of two gruesome years in the life of Oelwein, Iowa, a railroad and meatpacking town of several thousand whipped by a methamphetamine-laced panic...
"Madoff Is Sentenced to 150 Years for Ponzi Scheme"
"...Burt Ross, who lost $5 million in the fraud, cited Dante's The Divine Comedy, in which the poet defined fraud as 'the worst of sin' and expressed the hope that, when Mr. Madoff dies -- 'virtually unmourned' -- he...
"A Guy From Green Bay Plays the Other Football"
"...Beasley was soon headed to Europe, and [Jay] DeMerit would even beat him there, but Beasley's career was flying first class while DeMerit's was stowed in baggage. He had a gnawing feeling that he could be a professional, but...
"Headless Bodies From a Bottomless Imagination"
"In his Victorian house in the East End here Yinka Shonibare, the British-Nigerian conceptual artist, perched on an exercise ball at the wooden table in his book-crammed study, sipping peppermint tea and examining a shipment of faux oysters on...
"Where Have All the Muses Gone?"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124242927020125473.html "Whatever happened to the Muse? She was once the female figure -- deity, Platonic ideal, mistress, lover, wife -- whom poets and painters called upon for inspiration. Thus Homer in the Odyssey, the West's first great work of...
"Dante's Inferno" computer game (and future film?)
http://www.dantesinferno.com/home.action "Film rights for an Electronic Arts video game that hasn't been released yet were sold to Universal Pictures in an auction that attracted five movie studios, Variety reported. The movie rights for the game, whose working title Variety...
Joe Wright, "The Soloist" (2009)
http://data.kataweb.it/kpm2cinx/field/image/tcimage/372149 "The Soloist is a buddy movie with none of the usual grace notes of the genre, and the backdrop--a skid row seemingly conjured by Dante where legions of homeless lead a feral existence --is part of a Los...
Review of Susan Gubar, "Judas: A Biography" (2009)
Ted McGrath http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/books/review/Kirsch-t.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y "In Judas: A Biography, Susan Gubar has amassed a long, grim and often nauseating catalog of the ways in which the Christian imagination has vented its wrath on the disciple who betrayed his master...The author of...
"If Bernie Met Dante..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/weekinreview/15blumenthal.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y ... Yes, Bernard L. Madoff went to jail on Thursday after pleading guilty to a gargantuan Ponzi scheme, and yes, he may face the rest of his life in prison when he is sentenced to as much as...
"In Italy's Dugout, Piazza Embraces a New Role"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/sports/baseball/28mets.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y "Piazza is one of four American coaches on the staff with varying levels of the Italian language at their disposal. As they sat in the dugout before the game, they spoke to one another in English, with one...
"On Poetry: The Great(ness) Game"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/books/review/Orr-t.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y "STILL, however blurry 'greatness' may be, it's clear that segments of the poetry world have been fretting over its potential loss since at least 1983. That's the year in which an essay by Donald Hall, the United States...
P.K. Dick's "The Owl in Daylight"
http://www.philipkdick.com/aa_g-fame-cat.html "Philip K. Dick's last wife has reworked the novel he was working on when he died in 1982 and is publishing the book herself, The Guardian reported. Tessa Dick, the fifth wife of the science-fiction legend, told Self-Publishing...
Paul Taylor, "Scudorama" (1963, 2009)
http://www.instantencore.com/concert/details.aspx?PId=5030337 In Scudorama eight dancers, wearing street clothes and bright leotards and using beach towels as shrouds (with sets and costumes designed by the artist Alex Katz), disintegrate into ravaged forms. Like shifting shadows they crawl across the floor...
"Smoking Ban Hits Home. Truly."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/us/27belmont.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y "BELMONT, Calif. -- During her 50 years of smoking, Edith Frederickson says, she has lit up in restaurants and bars, airplanes and trains, and indoors and out, all as part of a two-pack-a-day habit that she regrets not...
"Where Sweatshops Are a Dream"
"This is a Dante-like vision of hell. It's a mountain of festering refuse, a half-hour hike across, emitting clouds of smoke from subterranean fires..." (in reference to a large garbage dump in Phnom Penh, Cambodia) Nicholas D. Kristof, The...
Cgil strike, Genova, December 2008
http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/economia/sciopera-cgil/4.html The sign cites (with a little alteration) from Inferno XXVI, 118-120 Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.' Consider well the seed that gave you birth: you were...
Aftermath of a Revolt: Myanmar's Lost Year
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/weekinreview/05pepper.html?tntemail0=y&_r=1&oref=slogin&emc=tnt&pagewanted=all "In one sense, things have improved in recent years. Once a scene from Dante's hell--the few outsiders who visited sometimes described thousands upon thousands of half-naked men, women and children clawing into the rock in search of jade--the...
Andrew Davidson, "The Gargoyle" (2008)
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Gargoyle/Andrew-Davidson/e/9780385524940 "Seeing the angel wings on Marianne's bare back, the burn victim starts to melt. He also likes Marianne's captivating conversational style. ('For now, may I tell you a story about a dragon?') He wonders if, how and why...
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