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What is everyone talking about this week: The secret life of plankton
3+ hour, 25+ min ago (281+ words) Country Life You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful As the Season gets under way this month, Britain's intelligentsia will descend upon the Hay Festival. I've always loved that a glorified book fair on the Welsh borders can…...
The Forest Is Watching: Omar Musa on Power, Language and Fierceland
5+ hour, 7+ min ago (441+ words) In not acknowledging our ghosts, it means that we will forever be haunted. In Fierceland, Omar Musa asks his characters, readers, and authorial self to reckon with a different kind of ghost story. From slam poetry stages to novels that…...
Step into a world of greenery
10+ hour, 23+ min ago (256+ words) Geelong author Dr Fiona Gray is giving children the opportunity to celebrate her new book with a storytime event in Highton. Dr Gray's Gretel Petal and the Blooming City is set in a grey city that becomes transformed by greenery....
Poetic Hill
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (279+ words) Amuchechukwu Nwafor was raised in Mount Rainier, MD, and lives in Brookland. She is a first-generation Black American whose poetry touches on the diaspora, sexual advocacy, mental health, and the female experience. Amuche considers her poems to be still life…...
In Himachal Pradesh, tourism and migration are altering beliefs that kept forests safe
19+ hour, 25+ min ago (864+ words) Baapya" review: A gender bender about a man who loved a woman who was always a man Indian Institute of Zombies" review: Backbenchers to the rescue in inspired but uneven comedy Oxfam was involved in campaign against Assam tea industry,…...
New book about 'Project Cheetah' set to be launched on May 23
20+ hour, 9+ min ago (237+ words) New Delhi, May 17 (PTI) Nearly four years after the launch of "Project Cheetah, which sought to bring back the worlds fastest animal to India, a new book about the initiative will be launched on May 23. It is authored by Prashant…...
Storybook magic comes alive at Bacolod museum
19+ hour, 18+ min ago (258+ words) A vibrant forest of trees, animals and flowers appears to have leapt straight out of a children's storybook and into an ancestral home along...
Andrew Welsh-Huggins shares fun facts about geese, nicknames, more
19+ hour, 19+ min ago (557+ words) Author Andrew Welsh-Huggins is lauded for his deep dives into terrorism and Ohio's death penalty, and his fiction thrillers draw rave reviews. But it all began with a goose on the loose. "I've been writing stories for as long as…...
Dante's Inferno describes Lucifer falling from Heaven " or an asteroid impact? - News Room USA | LNG in Northern BC
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (842+ words) Lucifer falls from Heaven and creates Hell" Lucifer's fall is not just a theological image, but a violent shock that excavates Hell within the Earth and projects the matter that gives rise to the mountain of Purgatory. The similarities with…...