…biography of the famous Japanese author; The Band’s Visit, a comedy from 2007 about an Israeli band that’s forced to stay in a remote Egyptian village; and Housekeeping, about an…
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Hanging with Junot Díaz in Key West
…for fiction less than two weeks ago and makes Oscar Wao one of those books, like Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, where the author not only tells the story of an…
The Empire Strikes Back with the Bible
…over others, or it can be a way to enable, energize, or liberate others. When “power over” is divinely sanctioned, and there is a single authoritative way to interpret or…
Rantoul Rounds Up Local Writers Tonight
…and one of America’s most esteemed poets teaches here (Brigit Pegeen Kelly) and an authorial authority on U.S. media hosts a local radio show here every week (Bob McChesney) and…
World War II Camp Survivor Comes to the Urbana Free Library
…unique as they come, and he will bring his story to the Urbana Free Library this Sunday, April 6, at 2 p.m. The author will read an excerpt from his…
Performance Poet Patrick Rosal Visits C-U Today
Play every note loud — especially the wrong ones. – Dizzy Gillespie Poet Patrick Rosal visits Author’s Corner at the Illini Union Bookstore today as a guest artist in the…
The Death of Ivan Ilyich City-Wide Read Begins Sunday with a Party
…author, along with University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman, and mayors from Champaign and Urbana, Gerald Schweighart and Laurel Prussing, respectively. The “Big Read” launch, at Alice Campbell Alumni Center,…
Taxi to the Dark Side Explores the Hard Truth of Torture
…human rights violations, the fostering of terrorist activity and the abuse of authority by the world’s most arrogant super power, but it very clearly points to how the United States’…
Bird Brains: Avian Biologist Visits Campus
…actually got a leg up on you in the brain department?) During the past two-and-a-half decades, Lefebvre has authored or co-authored more than 55 scientific articles. He’s also the inventor…
Diversity Prevents Mass Murder
…situations that Kazmierczak caused. The most interesting theory I have heard is from Katherine Newman, professor of sociology at Princeton and author of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings….