Save info   Get password
Home Submit your blog Edit Account Rules RSS-Archive Contact


Royal Society Prize for Science Books goes to Mark Lynas for Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
2008-06-19 00:00:00
What is in store for our planet and our lives as global temperatures rise degree by Celsius degree, up to six degrees of global warming by the year 2100? Six Degrees : Our Future on a Hotter Planet answer...
Read more: Royal , Society , Science , Books

Media Guru Tony Schwartz, 1923 - 2008
2008-06-17 00:00:00
The best thing about radio is that people were born without earlids. You can't close your ears to it. Called the man "who moved sound recording into the realm of the arts," by photographer Edward Steichen, "the King of Sound" by...
Read more: Schwartz

Vincent Bugliosi on The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
2008-06-16 00:00:00
Are there no consequences for committing a crime of colossal proportions? As a Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney, Vincent Bugliosi successfully prosecuted 105 of 106 ...
Read more: Prosecution , George

Rawi Hage wins wins the €100,000 Impac Dublin literary award for debut novel De Niro's Game
2008-06-13 00:00:00
"A magnificent achievement for a writer writing in a third language," was the opinion of the judges. "Its originality, its power, its lyricism, as well as its humane appeal all mark De Niro's Game as the ...
Read more: Dublin , debut , novel

Rose Tremain captures Orange Broadband Prize
2008-06-09 00:00:00
British author Rose Tremain captured the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction last week for her 10th novel,


David Sirota on Lou Dobbs
2008-06-04 00:00:00
Called "a new-generation populist who instinctively understands that the only real questions are 'Who's getting screwed'" by Molly Ivins and a "populist rabble rouser" with a "take no-prisoners mind-set" by the ...
Read more: David , Dobbs

Red House Children's Book Award to Derek Landy for Skulduggery Pleasant
2008-06-02 00:00:00
Derek Landy is the 2008 winner of the Red House Children 's Book Award , a UK children's book award that is chosen exclusively by c...
Read more: Derek

Boots on the Ground by Dusk, Mary Tillman's four year quest to expose the coverup of her son's death
2008-05-28 00:00:00
Pat Tillman left his professional football career and a multimillion-dollar contract with the Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the United States Army following the September 11 attacks. He was the armed forces' most famous soldier. On April 22, 2004...
Read more: Boots , death

David Rieff on a lying to his dying mother, Susan Sontag
2008-05-25 00:00:00
It was impossible even to tell her...that I loved her because to have done so would have been to say: 'You're dying.' The Guardian has printed an extended excerpt from David Rieff's memoir,
Read more: mother , Susan , Sontag

Swing Hammer Swing! author, Jeff Torrington, 1935-2008
2008-05-18 00:00:00
"It is the spirit of Glasgow distilled into 400 pages," wrote one critic about Swing Hammer Swing!, the book which took 30 years for Scottish writer Jeff Tor...


Philippe Sands before the House Committee
2008-05-14 00:00:00
Philippe Sands , Professor of International Law at University College London, has testified before the House Judiciary Sub-Committee about the findings in his new book,
Read more: Philippe

Graham Robb wins 2008 Ondaatje Prize
2008-05-05 00:00:00
The Royal Society of Literature has announced that Graham Robb has won the 2008 Ondaatje Prize for his book


Raja Shehadeh wins Orwell Prize for Palestinian Walks
2008-05-02 00:00:00
Human rights campaigner and lawyer, Raja Shehadeh, has won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing for his book Palestin...
Read more: Palestinian

2008 Krasnza-Krausz Book Awards announced
2008-04-22 00:00:00
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, the catalog for the internationally acclaimed exhibition curated Matthew S. Witkovsky, has been awarde...
Read more: Awards

Glenn Greenwald on the Pennsylvania debate and Great American Hypocrites
2008-04-19 00:00:00
Following Wednesday's Democratic debate in Pennsylvania , many pundits have commentated that the media has finally gotten tough with Barack Obama. They decribe how the media is now less focused on attacking Hillary Clinton and, at last, closely scruti...
Read more: Glenn , Greenwald , Great , American

Francis Parkman Prize to Jean Edward Smith for FDR
2008-04-12 00:00:00
"After seven years of incompetence in Washington, D.C., I think the country is ready to look back at the type of leadership we had in someone like Roosevelt," Jean Edward Smith said on learning tha...
Read more: Francis

Michael Billington wins Theatre Book Prize for The State of the Nation
2008-04-03 00:00:00
The Guardian critic Michael Billington has won this year's Theatre Book Prize for The State of the N...


Marcus Rediker wins the 2008 Merle Curti Award for The Slave Ship
2008-04-01 00:00:00
Marcus Rediker has won the 2008 Merle Curti Award for The Slave Ship: A Human History. The Merle Curti Award is sponsered by the Organization of American Historians and has been given since 1977 for books...
Read more: Marcus

Tim Wise on Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the Unacceptability of Truth
2008-03-27 00:00:00
It is not the crime that bothers us, but the remembrance of it, the unwillingness to let it go--these last words being the first ones uttered by most whites it seems whenever anyone, least of all an "angry black man" like Jeremiah Wright , foists u...
Read more: Barack , Obama , Truth , Barack Obama

Indra Sinha wins the South East Asia and South Pacific regional Commonwealth Writers' Best Book Prize for Animal's People
2008-03-27 00:00:00
I used to be human once. So I'm told. I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet just like a human being... Indra Sinha "started writing what he thought was going to be ...
Read more: South , Asia , Pacific , regional , Commonwealth , Writers , Animal

No consolation prize for Tom Bullough whose book, The Claude Glass, was mistakenly announced as the 2008 Wales Book of the Year
2008-07-04 00:00:00
"I should say, to win the Wales Book of the Year prize for The Claude Glass was my absolute dream," said author Tom Bullough recalling the "cruel glimpse of hell" he experienced when he was called to the Hilton Cardiff stage as the winner of the 2008...


Wales Book of the Year to Dannie Abse for The Presence
2008-07-02 00:00:00
"The unease I felt about writing it was dissipated when I realised the response to the book but I wish the book had never had to be written", was poet Dannie Abse's response after winning the
Read more: Wales , Presence

Margaret Atwood wins Prince of Asturias Award for Letters
2008-06-28 00:00:00
"The leading figure in Canadian literature and one of the most outstanding voices of contemporary fiction", Margaret Atwood has been awarded the 2008
Read more: Prince , Award , Letters

"The owners of this country know the truth: It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin 1937 – 2008
2008-06-24 00:00:00
It's the old American double standard, you know, say one thing, do something different. And, of course, the country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard. This country was founded ...
Read more: asleep , believe , George , Carlin , George Carlin

Salman Rushdie knighted as Best of the Booker Prize winners
2008-07-16 00:00:00
Probably the best-known winner of the Man Booker Prize, Sir Salman Rushdie , is now of...
Read more: Salman Rushdie

Sharp Teeth author Toby Barlow, on LA
2008-08-04 00:00:00
Sharp Teeth, the free verse debut novel by Toby Barlow , is a story of love and werewolves in modern Los Angeles. A "tightly written crime thriller" disguised a heroic epic poem, the book is a "howling, hole-digging, bone-snapping, blood-lapping, int...


Kay Ryan announced as new Poet Laureate
2008-07-30 00:00:00
The Library of Congress has announced announced that Kay Ryan is to be the sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States. "Her poems", according to


Douglas Blackmon on Slavery by Another Name
2008-07-27 00:00:00
If you think slavery ended with the civil war, read Douglas Blackmon's book Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the C...


Mahmoud Darwish, 1942 - 2008
2008-08-15 00:00:00
The Israelis do not want to teach students that there is a love story between an Arab poet and this land. I just wish they'd read me to enjoy my poetry, not as a representative of the enemy. He was the "most brilliant" Arabic ...
Read more: Mahmoud

Michelle De Kretser wins New South Wales Premier's Book of the Year Award for The Lost Dog
2008-08-10 00:00:00
The Lost Dog is a love story set in contemporary Australia and mid-20th century India anchored by the search for a lost dog. "I think the book contrasts in some ways modernity, for want of a better term,...
Read more: Michelle , South , Wales , Premier , Award , New South

Page 1 of 2 « < 1 2 > »
eXTReMe Tracker