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Bookish and traumatised: the real Marilyn Monroe comes to Venice
AFP, Published on 05/09/2022
» PARIS - Sixty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe is back in the limelight as the subject of the buzzy Netflix biopic 'Blonde', which premiers at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday.
Just skimming through?
Published on 26/09/2019
» “Deep reading” is defined as a process whereby readers engage in attentive and thoughtful reading in order to enhance their understanding and enjoyment of a text.
Dresses flow for Beckham, billow for Goddard: London fashion trends
AFP, Published on 16/09/2019
» LONDON - From Victoria Beckham's flowing dresses to Molly Goddard's airy creations in tulle, London Fashion Week, ending Tuesday has rolled out some standout new silhouettes.
Will these change the way we read?
Life, Alexandra Alternyt, Published on 02/11/2018
» 'A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic," cosmologist Carl Sagan once said. "It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years."
Report from the far South
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/01/2018
» The first issue of The Melayu Review has the clean sophistication of a respectable literary journal. The layout is unfussy, the photographs black-and-white, and the text in Thai, in shipshape blocks. An editor's note on the first page quotes Dostoyevsky: "But how could you live and have no story to tell?"