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Showing posts with label ancient world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ancient world. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Ancient Sites Discovered

  • Odyssey's End?: The Search for Ancient Ithaca | People & Places | Smithsonian Magazine

  • Scientists uncover lost Venetian city - USATODAY.com


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To Read

  • In Defence of Dogs
  • Reading List for the Egypt Crisis
  • Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century, Marjorie Perloff
  • Paul McDonough: New York Photographs 1968–1978
  • The Girls of Murder City, Douglas Perry
  • One Day, David Nicholls
  • The Scholar and the Caliph
  • Down the Garden Path, Beverley Nichols
  • The Science of Kissing, Sheril Kirshenbaum
  • Allure, Diana Vreeland
  • Running the Books, Avi Steinberg
  • The Memory Chalet, Tony Judt
  • Finishing the Hat, Vol 1, Stephen Sondheim
  • The Man Who Recorded the World: a Biography of Alan Lomax, John Szwed
  • Pulse, Julian Barnes
  • Cry Liberty, Peter Charles Hoffer
  • American Uprising, Daniel Rasmussen
  • The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece, Eric Siblin
  • Tonight at Noon, Sue Mingus
  • This Is Music: A Guide to the Pleasures of Listening, David Randolph
  • Just Kids, Patti Smith
  • The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, Eric Foner
  • Letter to D, Andre Gorz
  • Trajet d'une amoureuse econduite, Anne Brochet
  • Thank Heaven, Leslie Caron
  • Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet, Jennifer Homans
  • Coco Chanel, Justine Picardie
  • Anthill, E.O. Wilson
  • The Best of Friends, Mariana Pasternak
  • The Russian Version, Elena Fanailova
  • The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece, Carola Hicks
  • Voices of Russian Literature, Sally Laird
  • I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of An Angry Arab Woman, Joumana Haddad
  • The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
  • Even Silence has an End, Ingrid Betancourt
  • Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation, Gérard Genette
  • The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and “Les Misérables," Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Late Idyll, Reinhold Brinkmann

To Recite

  • The Black Unicorn
  • Arts & Sciences
  • Still to Mow
  • Figure Studies
  • Decreation
  • Loving a Woman in Two Worlds
  • Strong Is Your Hold
  • On the Bus with Rosa Parks
  • The Best American Poetry [2008]
  • Sonnets to Orpheus
  • Letters to a Stranger
  • Sean Haldane
  • Szymborska's New & Collected
  • Siedel's Collected
  • Fiona Sampson
  • Nox
  • Maureen Mclane

To Hear

  • Jesca Hoop
  • Spanische Liebeslieder
  • Hanni El Khatib
  • Emily Osment
  • Dunes
  • Fences
  • Ariana Delawari (more)
  • W & Whale
  • Yasmin
  • Sam Philips
  • Sia ("Day Too Soon")
  • Sleeper
  • Fresh Millions
  • Houses
  • Bikini
  • Alison Balsom
  • Mykola Suk
  • Yuja Wang
  • Allison Miller

To Watch

  • Miranda July
  • White Material
  • Love & Other Drugs
  • One Day
  • The Time That Remains
  • The Eyes of Laura Mars
  • The Other Woman
  • Jazz Baroness
  • Anita O'Day, Life of a Jazz Singer
  • Garbo the Spy
  • Copacabana
  • Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
  • Jane Eyre (2010)
  • Garden of Eden
  • Another Year
  • Tron: Legacy
  • The Town
  • Queen to Play
  • Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
  • The Tempest
  • Arrested Development
  • Modern Family
  • Thekla Reuten
  • Certified Copy
  • For Neda
  • Black Swan
  • Sandrine Bonnaire
  • Anne Brochet

To Write

  • Bobby Robinson
  • Mark Landis
  • Yu Xinhong
  • Zakariya Amataya
  • Marzieh
  • Gregory Isaacs
  • Constance Reid
  • Sylvia Sleigh
  • Virginia Hall
  • Fleur Cowles
  • Marika Rivera
  • Walter Tull
  • Karen Woo
  • Lolita Chammah
  • Isabel Sarli
  • Juan Pujol
  • Madoff's Victims
  • Louise Brooks (picture)
  • Revelle Balmain
  • Bob Wittman
  • Nicholas White
  • Joplin/Berlin meeting
  • JAZZ
  • Lena Horne
  • Gene Lees
  • Bill Dixon
  • Martin Drew
  • Abbey Lincoln
  • Anita O'Day
  • OPERA
  • Richard T. Gill
  • Hugues Cuénod
  • Kiri Te Kanawa
  • Maureen Forrester
  • Leah Crocetto
  • Blanche Thebom
  • Anne Brown
  • Mattiwilda Dobbs
  • Betty Allen
  • FASHION
  • Isabelle Caro
  • Madoff's Accusers
  • Naomi Sims
  • Gerren Taylor
  • Tatjana Patitz
  • Chloe Mortaud
  • BEBOP BARONESS
  • Thelonica (Tommy Flanagan)
  • Blues for Nica (Kenny Drew)
  • Tonica (Kenny Dorham)
  • Nica (Sonny Clark)
  • Nica's Tempo (Gigi Gryce)
  • Inca (Barry Harris)
  • Nica Steps Out (Freddie Redd)
  • Nica's Dream (Horace Silver)
  • Pannonica (Monk)
  • DANCE
  • Astaire
  • Balanchine's Muses
  • Trisha Brown
  • Nina Falaise
  • Balanchine
  • Lydia Lopokova ("Bloomsbury Ballerina")
  • Carlos Acosta
  • Simone Clarke ("BNP Ballerina")
  • Margot Fonteyn
  • Darci Kistler
  • Jimmy Slyde
  • Merce Cunningham
  • Pina Bausch

The Indispensable

  • B Slaying 1+1
  • Murdoch hacking, circa 2006
  • Scourge of Bike Lanes
  • Poetry as career
  • Valentine's Day
  • Grad student pick-up artist
  • Q&A on Hipster
  • On Obama at Tucson
  • The Case for Cab Calloway
  • In Defense of Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Liszt turns 200
  • Spidey's Lament
  • 5:39
  • On playing hard to get
  • Russia's drowning
  • Rap Only Ruins
  • Classical Music's Golden Age
  • Hating Paris Hilton
  • Rejection hurts
  • Marie Micheline
  • VF on Assange
  • What was the hipster?
  • A Free Man of Color
  • David Goldblatt
  • MJ dies
  • Cibelle
  • Jazz Widows
  • Zadie Smith on Katharine Hepburn
  • The Man From Dream City
  • Hamilton Naki
  • La Stupenda dies
  • The Education of Stephanie Umoh
  • Wines by the glass
  • Ted Hughes's 'Last Letter'
  • Uprooted: Chronicling the Great Migration
  • Darci Kistler, the last of Balanchine's girls, retires
  • Florence on Letterman
  • Drabble in Florence
  • Russia in color, 1910
  • Lilla on midterm elections
  • Passing of Anatole Broyard
  • Falling Man
  • Ballet is dying

Dark Familiars

  • Monsieur Faber
  • Gigi Phillips
  • Cinderella
  • Spiderman
  • Larry David
  • Liz Lemon
  • George O'Malley
  • Ralph Ellison
  • Horatio
  • Lucy Honeychurch
  • Razumov
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Charlotte Lucas
  • Hector Berlioz
  • Hyacinth Robinson
  • Anna Karenina
  • Orsino
  • Hotspur
  • Duke Ellington
  • Judith Traherne
  • Voltaire
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Cecil Vyse
  • Anne Elliot
  • Kathy H

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