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19 Fascinating Facts About Jayne Mansfield
The life of Vera Jayne Palmer, a.k.a. Jayne Mansfield, is filled with many too-wild-to-be-true rumors—but some of those ...
Monitor4d
Cutting wit to slice and dice his interlocutors
The beauty with Nagenda’s prose is that it is thinly veiled poetry. His book also reveals him as a grammarian who dots the ...
The Daily Progress5d
Fernando Valverde may be a Luddite, but his students are the ones actually learning
These words, first written by famed English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, are now the mantra ... you may identify yourself with one of the characters in the story, or maybe one of them reminds ...
British Theatre Guide10d
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London
Richard Bradbury’s play Regarding Shelley lets us glimpse, with a confident cast, what happens when the poet and essayist ...
Cartoon Brew13d
Alberto Mielgo’s Search For Visual Poetry In His ‘Marathon’ Cinematic Short
The Oscar-winning director of 'The Windshield Wiper' talks us through his stunning new short for the upcoming game 'Marathon.
Inside Mani Ratnam’s Rs 30 Crore dream home: From editing under Mango trees to Dolby screening rooms
Mani Ratnam’s Rs 30-crore Alwarpet home in Chennai is a stunning blend of heritage and innovation, featuring 200-year-old Chettinad doors and a Dolby-ready screening room, reflecting the legendary ...
Luther College1mon
Luther College professor Amy Weldon’s ‘Creature’ novel braids the life of Mary Shelley, author of ‘Frankenstein,’ with Shelley’s famous character
It interweaves her little-known life journey with that of her most famous character, the “creature” created ... not just ‘Frankenstein,’ and not just her marriage to [Percy Bysshe] Shelley and the ...
Ilkley Gazette1mon
Review: Mary Shelley at Ilkley Playhouse
Opening at Ilkley Playhouse this week, is Helen Edmundson’s roller coaster of a biographical play, detailing two years of Mary Shelley’s life with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley ... (and Mrs Godwin ...
Greek Reporter1mon
Lord Byron: The Great Philhellene Who Died for Greece
He was born with a problem in his right leg, which left him with a lifelong limp that affected his character and work ... He traveled to Geneva, where he befriended the writer Percy Bysshe Shelley and ...
Need a balm for these troubled times? I recommend the works of P.G. Wodehouse
From Mr. Mulliner to Bertie and Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse's creations make me laugh out loud. In today's world, that's gold ...
Jazz2mon
Simin Tander: The Wind
The outlier—at least in terms of its stormy energy—is Tander's vivid reimagining of English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley's "The Cloud on Nursling ... nuances—imbues the album with a progressive character ...
Prospect2mon
Books in brief: what to read this April
As the writer and critic Fiona Sampson begins her excellent introduction, technically it was Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin who arrived in Bath: the 19-year-old lover of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... in the ...