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(1) THUMB OUT, THUMBS DOWN. The 1979 Best Dramatic Hugo race is analyzed by the Hugo Book Club Blog in “Death From Above (Hugo cinema 1979)”. In spite of everything going for it, this finalist did not win: …Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy is rightly regarded as a classic of science fiction comedy. Those in our ....
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Schneidermann’s analysis begins with the St. Louis, the ship that carried around a thousand mostly German and Austrian Jewish refugees across the Atlantic in ....
John Edward Gloag was born in London in 1896, served in the Welsh Guards in WW1 where he was gas-poisoned by his own side, and invalided home. Shattered by the experience, he was determined to champion new ideas for society and begins to write about relationship between modernism in design and society. His first books were straightforward: Simple Furniture and Arrangement (1921, the only book written with his wife), The House we Ought to Live In (1923, great title) and Colour & comfort in decoration (1924).
Has any other novelist lived a life so steeped in political intrigue? Evening Standard/Getty Images March 10, 2021 The last novelist who acted like he might save the world may have been Graham Greene. He belonged to a generation of writers who might not always share the same political opinions but who supported many of the same causes: defending jailed dissidents, protesting illegal wars, and challenging the unfairness (or even stupidity) of censoring great books. He wrote a novel, The Comedians, and developed its film adaptation with the intention of helping to “isolate” Haiti’s Papa Doc Duvalier, who contemplated having Greene assassinated in retaliation. At one point, Greene was so celebrated that the South African State Department asked him to negotiate the release of a kidnapped ambassador in El Salvador. (Greene eventually came to an agreement with the rebels, but the ambassador was killed anyway for reasons that were never fully understood.) By the en ....