Linda Grant’s The People on the Street won this years Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. The book tells the story of Grant, a non-religious Diaspora Jew, traveling to and in Israel in 2003. (Via The Millions.) Kiran Desai won Britain’s most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, for her The Inheritance […]
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Run a Google search for “the historical Jesus” and you end up with more than 650,000 results. But the search for a historical Jesus itself isn’t anything new. In fact, not only did it start in the 18th Century, but Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer published his classic work, The Quest of the Historical […] When Time magazine reporter Michael Weisskopf went to Iraq to do a cover story on the U.S. soldier as Time‘s “Person of the Year” for 2003, he came back with the story of a lifetime. Problem is, it wasn’t the cover story. It was a story that came from losing his right hand to a […] Major junior leagues are playing, the pre-season NCAA Division I college poll is out and the National Hockey League (and my local favorite, the USHL) begin regular season play this week. That means hockey fans need to complete their tune-up for another year of hockey. How about a quick trip across the breadth of North […] Governments, projects and businesses tend to fear insider accounts. That’s because being on the inside means access to even the most damaging information. Yet what can be even more revealing is an insider account by someone who isn’t really an insider. That may not have been what Rory Stewart set out to accomplish with The […] |
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