Clockwise from top left, eight of the people who have signed the petition: Hanif Kureishi, Björk, Arundhati Roy, Don DeLillo, Ian McEwan, Tom Stoppard, Margaret Atwood and Martin Amis More than 500 of the world s leading authors, including five Nobel prize winners, have condemned the scale of state surveillance revealed by the…
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What s your favourite book? A difficult question for many to answer. When we asked Sue Wilkinson, our new CEO, about her favourite books she revealed she doesn t have one single favourite title, or even a list of her best 10, but a top 200! Here s what she said about some of them. Just some of the top 200 How do you choose your…
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The cover of this week’s Time Magazine features writer Jonathan Franzen, whose new novel, Freedom , publishes at the end of August. As the New York Times points out, he’ll be the first living writer on the cover in ten years. To get there, an author must brew the perfect combination of sales, publicity, and cultural impact…
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Victor Herbert, musician, composer and founder of ASCAP photographed in 1914 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Was Founded What do Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, Madonna, Metallica, Tom Waits, the Dixie Chicks, and Tito Puente all have in common? Yes, they are all Grammy award winners, but they are also…
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The Asian Institute of Technology was home to 16 of the top 100 authors in Thailand ranked by publications produced in the field of environmental science from 2010 to 2014, according to Scopus, a leading bibliographic database owned by Elsevier. Prof. Mukand Singh Babel AIT placed two scholars in the top five, seven in the top…
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In 1500 AD, people living in North America spoke many different languages, and none of them were written down. Many of these languages died out in the 1500s and 1600s AD, because so many people had died of smallpox and measles that hardly anyone was left to speak those languages anymore. In the course of the 1700s and 1800s…
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We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use…
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Mark BittmanPhoto: Eric Tanner But there were complications, chief among them that I’m essentially anti-capitalist. In 1970, I described myself as a revolutionary. (I was 20 and, given the era, this was perhaps understandable.) In my heart, I don’t believe making money is an honorable goal, even if it’s ostensibly linked to…
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Taylor Swift and mother Andrea Swift on the red carpet at the 2007 CMT Music Awards. Rick Diamond/WireImage It s no secret Taylor Swift knows how to write a love song. But did you know her very best one is about her mom? For this week s Throwback Thursday, we re looking back on a song that is likely very familiar to Swift fans…
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