Tariq Ramadan, professore alla Facoltà di Teologia di Oxford, arriva negli Stati Uniti per la prima volta dopo la messa al bando nel 2004, durante l’amministrazione Bush.
PEN American Center (in collaborazione con l’American Civil...
Shortcomings
by Adrian Tomine.
Drawn & Quarterly, 2007. 108 pages.
Adrian Tomine is not a bold new voice in comics. He has already arrived. He has met with success, drawing covers for The New Yorker and illustrations for Rolling Stone. He has also published the series Optic Nerve since he was in high school, and released two volumes of short stories. His longer narrative Shortcomings is a humorous culmination of meditations on race and relationships.
While Tomine has already arrived, he is on the crest of a new wave of creative artists that I call the 'Brooklyn School'.
Shortcomings follows Ben Tenaka, a thirty-something Asian American who manages a movie theatre in Oakland. Ben's relationship...
Innocence and Guilt: Domenico Starnone in Conversation with Antonio Monda
Nell’ accogliente saletta dell’Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Domenico Starnone continua la conversazione di qualche ora prima alla Scandinavia House, raccontando del suo ultimo libro (Prima esecuzione, Feltrinelli; da poco tradotto in inglese).Una storia che ha a che fare col terrorismo nostrano degli anni Settanta, ma anche con il mestiere dell’insegnante e dello scrittore.Cosa...
The nearly full Great Hall at Cooper Union was the site for beautiful readings by Catalonian poet Narcis Comadira, Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh, Quebecois writer Nicole Broussard, Filipino novelist Jose Dalisay, French bestseller Muriel Barbery Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramirez, Hungarian writer Peter Nadas, Haitian-born writer Edwidge Danticat,...
