Poetry by the late Chilean author Roberto Bolano and fiction by best-selling Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard are among the finalists for the Best Translated Book Awards.
Before his mother became the model for Blanche DuBois of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and his sister the inspiration for Laura Wingfield of "The Glass Menagerie," Tennessee Williams drew upon a college girlfriend — if only in name — to tell a story of desire, drunkenness and regret.
His death mourned around the globe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a giant of modern literature, a writer of intoxicating novels and short stories that illuminated Latin America’s passions, superstition, violence and social inequality.
WITH THE current tech-savvy generation mainstreaming art in the digital era, the Philippines is experiencing yet again a “renaissance” in...
WITH some 4,000 visitors in each of its five editions, Art Apart Fair Singapore is continuously making a serious case...
Maya Angelou is mourning her friend Amiri Baraka, remembering him as a vital poet whose private persona differed greatly from his fiery public image.
A spokesman for Cornelius Gurlitt, the recluse collector embroiled in a controversy over Nazi-looted art, says 238 works found at his house in Austria last month might be as valuable as the trove German authorities seized from him in Munich two years ago.
When National Artist Arturo Luz had to close his venerable eponymous gallery in late 2002, he said one reason was none of his four daughters was interested in the art business. None of them had taken the brush to continue his art. It sounded less of frustration and more of resignation.
Maya Angelou, who rose from poverty, segregation and the harshest of childhoods to become a force on stage, screen, the printed page and the inaugural dais, has died. She was 86.
Amigos de España en Cebu presented the book “La Oveja de Nathan” (Nathan’s Sheep) in a well-attended reunion of sorts at Salon Barcelona of the Casino Español de Cebu.
