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Preview: France-Amérique Magazine – November 2022
EVERYONE SPEAKS ENGLISH
Or Do They?
France and the French can remain globally relevant only in English. Or so says British journalist Simon Kuper in one of a series of articles published recently by Le Monde. According to him, French is losing its utility, while English reigns supreme.
BERNARD CERQUIGLINI
“The French Language Is Doing Just Fine, Thank You!”
Who better than this jovial linguist to champion the French language? Bernard Cerquiglini holds a doctorate in literature, formerly directed the Center for French and Francophone Studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, and has been the vice-president of the Fondation des Alliances Françaises for the last two years.
Preview: The Burlington Magazine – Nov 2022
The Parthenon sculptures
It is now forty years since Melina Mercouri, the Greek Minister for Culture from 1981 to 1989, famous also as a film star and singer, addressed UNESCO’s World Conference on Cultural Policies to draw international attention to the campaign with which she would be identified until her death in 1994, the repatriation to Athens of the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum. ‘We are not asking for the return of a painting or a statue’, she said: ‘We are asking for the return of a portion of a unique monument, the privileged symbol of a whole culture’.
The Painters of Pompeii
As images, ancient Roman wall paintings command attention for their bold compositions, vibrant and saturated colours, convincing naturalism and the fantastical mythologies they depict. As objects they also captivate for the dramatic circumstances surrounding their near- destruction, the miracle (or rarity) of their survival and the alchemical nature of lime plaster and pigment.
Views: The New York Times Magazine – Oct 30, 2022
Beyond Catastrophe – A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View
There’s plenty of bad news. But thanks to real progress, we’re headed toward a less apocalyptic future.
The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame
This is what success looks like in the creator economy: Sometimes you have to beg millions of fans for mercy.
WORLD JOURNALISM: NEW INTERNATIONALIST – NOV ’22
TAKE BACK THE LAND
The land beneath our feet is what sustains us – from it we can produce food, construct shelter and build livelihoods. But, it’s also a cultural marker and a source of identity. Its control has been a long-favoured tool of colonizers, wealth hoarders and polluters, while its fiercest protectors – often Indigenous peoples – are criminalized, violated and dispossessed. This edition hears from struggles to take back the land in Brazil, Bangladesh, Kenya and North America. We also launch our new series ‘Decolonize how?’ which will explore what people are doing to dismantle the impacts – and current realities – of British-linked colonialism.
Culture: The New Review Magazine – Oct 23, 2022
Historian, novelist and former @ObserverUK foreign correspondent Neal Ascherson turns 90 Interview by @TimAdamsWrites @AOlmosPhotos
Book of the day Liberation Day by George Saunders review – a world of tricks and treats
The Lincoln in the Bardo author reinvents the possibilities of the short story in this wonderfully absurd return to the form
Travel & Culture Guides: ‘Why We Love Spain’ (2022)
editors have consistently begged to visit over the years as they attempt to understand its wholesome hidden depths. Here are 10 things that have us hankering for more.
Preview: Country Life Magazine – Oct 19, 2022
Country Life 19 October 2022 looks at springer spaniels, Manet, the nature writing of ‘BB’ and meets bladesmith Owen Bush.
Masterpiece
Jack Watkins admires Stubbs’s racehorse portrait Gimcrack
With a spring in his step
The Welsh springer is a brainy, loyal dual-purpose spaniel, observes Katy Birchall
Dreams are made of these
Ten field sportsmen and women reveal their perfect days with rod or hawk to Octavia Pollock
Blades of class
Claire Jackson meets imposing bladesmith Owen Bush and dares to swing one of his sharp and gleaming swords
When the heat is on
John Hoyland canvasses gardeners and designers about the plants that best survived the drought
The man that shocked France
Artistic recognition came too late in life for Édouard Manet, regrets Michael Prodger
Previews: The Atlantic Magazine – November 2022
The Atlantic Magazine – November 2022 Issue:
The empty promise of the Sixth Amendment, Siegfried & Roy’s rise and fall, a Guggenheim scapegoat, and independence for Puerto Rico. Plus stopping election deniers, Atlanta hip-hop, Orhan Pamuk, ABBA Voyage, a bygone Boston, new fiction, and more.
This Is Not Justice
A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment
The Improbable Rise and Savage Fall of Siegfried & Roy
At the peak of their fame, they were arguably the most famous magicians since Houdini.
The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat
A museum curator was forced out of her job over allegations of racism that an investigation deemed unfounded. What did her defenestration accomplish?
Let Puerto Rico Be Free
The only just future for my home is not statehood, but full independence from the United States.
Perspectives: Harper’s Magazine – November 2022
In the Running
The trials of an almost candidate – In January 2019, when I found myself sitting across from Mindy Myers in a cramped D.C. coffee shop, the new resistance was riding high. A diverse lot of Democrats had just taken control of the House of Representatives, positioning themselves to curtail Donald Trump’s devastating abuse of the presidency…
Some Like It Hot
Notes from the Marilyn Appreciation Society
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