The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga

Over the past couple of years, an extraordinary thing has happened in India. Driven by vertiginous economic growth, the burgeoning of an aggressively consumerist, astonishingly wealthy urban elite and the rise and rise of the bellwether stock-market index, a phrase has gained unrivalled currency: New India. This isn’t India Shining – the tagline previously used [...]

Divine artifice

Jonathan Keates
Two hundred and fifty years after his death, everybody suddenly needs Handel. Each of his 39 Italian operas is being broadcast, in the appropriate chronological sequence, by the BBC. Covent Garden’s new staging of Acis and Galatea and Glyndebourne’s revival of Giulio Cesare are both hot tickets. So, too, was the London Handel Festival’s [...]

Masterpieces of the Prado Museum in Google Earth

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The Prado Museum’s Masterpieces in ultra high resolution.

Gustavo Dudamel – Arturo Márquez – Danzón Nº 2

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Literary Theory in an Age of Globalization

Ihab Hassan
When the blackbird flew out of sight,
It marked the edge
Of one of many circles.
Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”
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Forget the blackbirds for now. The question is: how many ways are there of questioning theory in our age? And if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and the earth wobbles [...]

Nureyev – Don Quixote – Coda

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