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Month: May 2022

Cancelling Socrates: how the great philosopher sealed his fate with comedy Playwright Howard Brenton asks why ancient Athens turned on its famous citizen, and how such an uncompromising free-thinker might fare in our own ‘age of rage’ Tall poppy … a statue of Socrates in Athens. Howard Brenton

Posted on May 26 by Lawrence G. Taylor

www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/may/26/cancelling-socrates-howard-brenton

Review: Why a new historical thriller on the Serengeti is better (sorry) than Agatha Christie

Posted on May 21 by Lawrence G. Taylor

www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-05-09/review-how-a-new-historical-thriller-on-the-serengeti-is-better-sorry-than-agatha-christie

Beyond the Betrayal | Ruth Franklin | The New York Review of Books

Posted on May 19 by Lawrence G. Taylor

Beyond the Betrayal
Ruth Franklin
Why are we so eager to assign a single person blame for revealing the hiding place of Anne Frank and her family?
May 26, 2022 issue
— Read on www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/05/26/beyond-the-betrayal-anne-frank/

You’re More Emotionally Intelligent Than Your Partner? How dichotomous divisions are poison to a relationship. Posted May 6, 2022 Reviewed by Hara Estroff Marano

Posted on May 15 by Lawrence G. Taylor

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-other-side-relationships/202205/youre-more-emotionally-intelligent-your-partner

Love is both wonderful and a dangerous evolutionary trick | Aeon Essays

Posted on May 14 by Lawrence G. Taylor

Tainted love

Love is both a wonderful thing and a cunning evolutionary trick to control us. A dangerous cocktail in the wrong hands

by Anna Machin + BIO
— Read on aeon.co/essays/love-is-both-wonderful-and-a-dangerous-evolutionary-trick

Martha Graham on the Life-Force of Creativity and the Divine Dissatisfaction of Being an Artist – The Marginalian

Posted on May 11 by Lawrence G. Taylor

Martha Graham on the Life-Force of Creativity and the Divine Dissatisfaction of Being an Artist – The Marginalian
— Read on www.themarginalian.org/2015/10/02/martha-graham-creativity-divine-dissatisfaction/

Beyond the Betrayal | Ruth Franklin | The New York Review of Books

Posted on May 10 by Lawrence G. Taylor

On the morning of August 4, 1944, everything seemed normal at Prinsengracht 263, a tall, narrow building along a canal in Amsterdam’s Jordaan
— Read on www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/05/26/beyond-the-betrayal-anne-frank/

Isaacs wins first Island Prize for African debut novel RIGHTS MAY 6, 2022 BY RUTH COMERFORD

Posted on May 7 by Lawrence G. Taylor

www.thebookseller.com/rights/isaacs-wins-first-island-prize-for-african-debut-novel

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