A long-running debate about Beowulf, the epic Old English poem published somewhen between 975 and 1025 A.D., may now be settled. No one has yet been able to determine the identity of Beowulf‘s author, nor whether this author was a person acting alone. The issue is similar to the debate over whether Shakespeare was responsible for writing all, if any, of the works attributed to him. Now, new research, done by the team of Leonard Neidorf, Madison S. Krieger, Michelle Yakubek, Pramit Chaudhuri, and Joseph P. Dexter has come forward that concludes that Beowulf was written by a single author. Published in …
Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. -W.S. Merwin, “Separation” The world of poetry has lost one of its brightest and longest-burning lights this week. W.S. Merwin, a prolific American poet and environmental activist, has died at the age of 91 in Hai’ku, Hawaii. Those of you familiar with Merwin’s work understand the depth of loss that has occurred, and those of you who aren’t can consider this an opportunity to make the best of the situation and read through the repertoire of this exceedingly talented artist. …
Every now and again, God and Regent of the Wizarding World, J.K. Rowling, decides to gift us with a morsel of fact about the Harry Potter universe. A fact that she definitely had written down somewhere in her draft outlines well in advance of publishing each installment in the series.
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According to “sources within the production team,” Wes Anderson’s upcoming film, The French Dispatch, will be a “love letter to journalists,” set in the Parisian offices of an American newspaper circa the 20th-century. The film will cover three distinct storylines, populated by a rich ensemble cast, including Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Benicio del Toro, Jeffrey Wright, Timothée Chalamet, and Bill Murray, with whom Anderson has previously worked with in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Moonrise Kingdom. Image Via IndieWire This will be Anderson’s tenth feature film, and the first to be set in France, where he currently lives. The French Dispatch is now in the …
