Pulitzer Prize winner Martin J. Sherwin dies at 84 of lung cancer

Pulitzer Prize winner Martin J Sherwin dies at 84 of

NEW YORK – Martin J. Sherwin, a prominent atomic weapons scholar who in “A World Destroyed” questioned US support for the bombing of Japan and spent more than two decades researching physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer for the Pulitzer Prize winning book “American Prometheus” has died. Martin J. Sherwin died Wednesday at his home in Washington, … Read more

Pulitzer winner Martin J. Sherwin passed away

Pulitzer winner Martin J Sherwin passed away

(New York) Martin J. Sherwin, a prominent atomic weapons specialist who in A World Destroyed, questioned US support for the bombing of Japan and spent more than twenty years researching physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer for the book American Prometheus, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, has passed away. Posted on October 10, 2021 at 12:16 am … Read more

Poet Natasha Trethewey: “My mother’s death is a wound that I carry that does not heal”

Poet Natasha Trethewey My mothers death is a wound that

Interview.- Little known in France, the famous American poet published her first novel, Memorial Drive. In this moving story, which recounts her mother’s feminicide, she plunges us into the heart of racial discrimination and domestic violence. In Memorial Drive, Natasha Trethewey, 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Poet Laureate of the United States in 2012 … Read more

A teacher resigns after showing a film in class with an actor dressed in “blackface”

A teacher resigns after showing a film in class with

At the University of Michigan in the United States, a famous composer and teacher created controversy after showing the 1965 version of the film “Othello”. At the School of Music, Theater and Dance of the University of Michigan (United States), the controversy lasted several weeks. According to The Michigan Daily , the illustrious composer Bright … Read more

Les Grands Récits – Marathon de Boston – Kathrine Switzer, la femme qui a fait courir toutes les femmes

Les Grands Recits Marathon de Boston Kathrine Switzer

Londres. Boston. Paris. Perth. Jérusalem. Ce mois d’octobre 2021 ressemble à un véritable festival international du marathon, comme un retour à la vie après la crise sanitaire. Une guirlande multicolore et infinie de coureurs lâchés dans le dédale urbain de mégapoles du monde entier. Soit des centaines de milliers d’athlètes, dont un bon tiers de … Read more

Jazz en Tête, a story of generations | 7 Days in Clermont

Like every year, Jazz en Tête will be a great crossover of generations of musicians. The youngest will be able to rub shoulders with seniors who wrote the first hours of the Clermont-Ferrand festival, already 30 years ago. Winton Marsalis, Kenny Garrett, Kirk Lightsey: the names of these three musicians already appeared on the posters … Read more

Sally Rooney refuses to sell rights to her latest novel in Israel to denounce “apartheid”

Sally Rooney refuses to sell rights to her latest novel

The Irish literary phenomenon will not publish Beautiful World, Where Are You “in solidarity with a movement boycotting Israel“. The successful novelist created controversy. Sally Rooney, originally from Castlebar in the northwest of Ireland, is considered a young prodigy in the Anglo-Saxon world. Its intrigues address the notion of consent, social differences and romantic relationships. … Read more