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Tag: Writing and Writers
David Kirke, Who Made the First Modern Bungee Jump, Dies at 78
An Oxford-educated prankster as colorful as he was daring, he accidentally helped invent a new extreme sport in the 1970s.
Read Your Way Through Lima
Lima is a city of contrasts and contradictions — gray and tropical, dense and isolated. Augusto Higa Oshiro, one of its writers, recommended books and authors that have captured its complexity.
After Outcry, Writers Guild Tries to Explain Silence on Hamas Attack
The union said it had made no public statement because “we are American labor leaders, aware of our limitations and humbled by the magnitude of this conflict.”
Peter C. Newman, 94, Journalist and Scourge of Canada’s Powerful, Dies
A historian as well, he challenged, with a muckraker’s spirit, the political and corporate establishment of a country he adopted after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe.
Read Your Way Through Seoul
Han Kang grew up in Seoul, a city that embraces “thousands of years of turbulence.” She recommends reading that draws from the various eras that have made up her hometown.
Finding Her Voice Was Just a Rowboat Journey Away
Harakka Island, a creative community off the coast of Helsinki, Finland, helped the illustrator Marika Maijala come into her own as an artist. “I don’t know where my art ends and my life begins. The border is fleeting.”
The Art of Telling Forbidden Stories in China
Many writers are looking for ways to capture the everyday realities that the government keeps hidden — sometimes at their own peril.
Read Your Way Through Hanoi
Hanoi, long a city of storytellers, has been devastated and reborn time and time again. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai guides readers through the literature that has played a part in that renewal.
Read Your Way Through Salvador
The writer Itamar Vieira Junior says that to “feel the intensity of life on the streets of Salvador” in Bahia, Brazil, a reader must start with Jorge Amado.