Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Kumar Sen is well used to arguing his point of view, especially on topics that he is most noted for: welfare economics, social choice, social justice, moral philosophy, decision theory, the well-being of countries, and famines. Amartya Kumar Sen (1933-) is currently a professor at Harvard University and the…
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The man who wrote 1,001 novels: Kovvali Lakshmi Narasimha Rao
Kovvali Lakshmi Narasimha Rao, from Andhra Pradesh in India, wrote about 1,001 novels in his lifetime. He was born in Tanuku in the West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. In his 63 years, Kovvali Lakshmi Narasimha Rao (1912-1975) was a prolific story-teller, writing in his native Telugu language. His aim was to bring reading to…
Lee Holley, cartoonist of Ponytail, a teenage girl, researched real life
American cartoonist, Lee Holley, was famous for his depictions of a teenage girl, Ponytail Johnson, from the 1960s to 1980s, which he researched by going to pizza parlors
John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Book review of a lesser-known novelist of the 19th century
Just who is George Saunders anyway?
George Saunders, American writer, takes risks with his 2017 novel, Lincoln in the Bardo
Russian poet Yevgeny A Yevtushenko dies aged 84
Outspoken poet Yevgeny A Yevtushenko described his poetry as human rights poetry
Civil Rights campaigner, Roger Wilkins, dies at 85
Roger Wilkins was a journalist, author, university professor and civil rights campaigner
The gentlemanliness of Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories is often referred to as having a sense of gentlemanliness
The Gentleman in the Parlour by Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham writes of his travels in 1922 to Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia
‘To Sir, With Love’ author E.R. Braithwaite dies at 104
Guyanese author and diplomat E.R. Braithwaite, most noted for his London memoir ‘To Sir, With Love’ lived a long life
Letters to His Son by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Letters from a father to his 14-year-old son, written in 1746, on becoming a man of the world and a gentleman …
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
A fictional story of Count Rostov under house arrest at the Metropol Hotel in Moscow