how to read, there remains the equally vexed question of
what we should read. If the 21st century is notable for anything much at all when it comes to literature and I use the term in its broadest sense, as will become clear it’s the spiking of formerly big literary guns, and the dismantling of what used to be understood as the canon. In truth, the canon was both a comparatively recent phenomenon if by this is meant a collection of texts the reading of which was deemed essential if you were to consider yourself cultured and never by any means the overbearing and fortified phenomenon its detractors love to hate and besiege.
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Ireland s most garlanded director talks about ageism in film, Harvey Weinstein and his new novel, about the aristocratic rebel Lord Edward FitzGerald and his manservant, the freed slave Tony Small
We begin by comparing facial hair. Neil Jordan has cough-cough years on me, but, over the previous 12 months, we seem to have mutated into variations on the same grizzled, spectacled hermit
âHow is that beard coming?â he asks.
Our most garlanded film director â who is currently holed up in his rural Cork pad â has been eyeing the closing, opening and closing again of cinemas with weary interest. Among his greatest pleasures is âwalking down a city centre street and going into the cinemaâ. That wonât be happening for a while.
Opinion Columnist, The New York Times
Thomas Friedman, an internationally known author and journalist, has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at
The New York Times. His foreign affairs column in
The New York Times reports on US domestic politics and foreign policy, Middle East conflicts, international economics, environment, biodiversity and energy. Friedman is the author of seven bestselling books including
From Beirut to Jerusalem and
The World Is Flat. His latest bestseller,
Thank you For Being Late: An Optimist s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, was updated and released October, 2017. For more information, see his website.
February 8, 2021
A live virtual event focused on preventing future pandemics, recognizing that human health is inextricably linked to the health of wildlife, livestock and the environment, will be moderated by New York Times journalist Thomas L. Friedman with a keynote address from noted naturalist Jane Goodall.
Jane Goodall
This event is free and open to the public. It will feature public health and conservation experts from Cornell and other institutions, including the World Health Organization and the United Nations Environment Program.
“This virtual dialogue will be a robust exploration on how we as humanity can better govern our behavior to reduce the likelihood of future pandemics,” said Dr. Steve Osofsky, D.V.M. ’89, the Jay Hyman Professor of Wildlife Health & Health Policy and director of the Cornell Wildlife Health Center. “The experts we’ve assembled will be sharing their ideas on how our global community of nations can hopefully come together to prevent what
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Jane Goodall to keynote Cornell, WWF COVID-19 conference
A live virtual event focused on preventing future pandemics, as human health is inextricably linked to wildlife, livestock and the environment, will be moderated by New York Times journalist Thomas L. Friedman with a keynote address from noted naturalist Jane Goodall.
Jane Goodall
This event is free and open to the public. It will feature public health and conservation experts from Cornell and other institutions, including the World Health Organization and the United Nations Environment Program.
“This virtual dialogue will be a robust exploration on how we as humanity can better govern our behavior to reduce the likelihood of future pandemics,” said Dr. Steve Osofsky, D.V.M. ’89, the Jay Hyman Professor of Wildlife Health & Health Policy and director of the Cornell Wildlife Health Center. “The experts we’ve assembled will be sharing their ideas on how our global community of nations can hopefully come t