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Writers chronicle Africa in sync with World Cup
Jacket CopyWriters of African descent from Europe and America are winding their way across Africa; they're joining African authors who are writing about their experiences, all in coordination with the World Cup. It's for Pilgrimages, a project of the Chinua Achebe..... -
Charles Dickens speaks to 21st century's hard times
To the jaded Holden Caulfield in "The Catcher in the Rye," he was the guy responsible for "all that David Copperfield kind of crap." In "The Wire," he's the obsession of a philistine, prize-obsessed editor who can't stop drawing glib parallels between...Tags: Children, The Sopranos (tv program), American International Group, Watchmen (movie), Tourism and Leisure
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Nigeria civil war seen from sharpened angles
Special to The Times[This book review ran in the Los Angeles Times on Sept. 12, 2006] The West African nation of Nigeria has suffered more than its share of violence and corruption, starting with its blatantly misrepresentative first election in 1960 and on through its...Tags: Crimes, Family, Islam, Wole Soyinka, Religious Conflicts
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Le Clezio -- who's he?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf the selection of French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio as the 2008 Nobel literature laureate has anything to tell us, it's that Horace Engdahl means what he says. Last week, Engdahl, the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, called American...Tags: Toni Morrison, Austria, Sarah Palin, Elfriede Jelinek, French Literature
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Portico Magazine Book Picks
Portico Magazine’s March 2008 Book Picks: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul Be sure and visit http://www....Tags: Family, Maya Angelou, Death
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