Thanks to the rich imagination of the animators at Walt Disney, the fairy tale of Snow White, her wicked stepmother and the seven dwarfs who harbour her hardly needs an introduction. In Disney’s cartoon version, Snow White is the original princess of modern childhood: huge-eyed, costumed from the dressing-up box of European folklore, both victim and heroine; a perfect
He generally made a good first impression. ‘Met Philip Roth,’ Joyce Carol Oates wrote in her journal in May 1974. ‘Attractive, funny, warm, gracious: a completely likeable person.’ The American writer Janet Hobhouse, who depicted Roth as Jack Sprat in her very autobiographical novel The Furies, recalled ‘an irresistible physical presence – tall, slender, with broad
‘This Shakespeare is really somethin’,’ growled Jerry Lee Lewis after playing Iago in Catch My Soul, a 1968 musical adaptation of Othello. Americans have generally agreed with the Killer (whose performance, by the way, got rave notices: the Toronto Daily Star found him ‘genuinely diabolical’). Shakespeare has been wildly popular in America for a long […]
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Knowledge of Sufism increased markedly with the publication in 1964 of The Sufis, by Idries Shah. Nowadays his writings, much like his father’s, are dismissed for their Orientalism and inaccuracy.
@fitzmorrissey investigates who the Shahs really were.
Fitzroy Morrissey - Sufism Goes West
Fitzroy Morrissey: Sufism Goes West - Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah by Nile Green
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Rats have plagued cities for centuries. But in Baltimore, researchers alighted on one surprising solution to the problem of rat infestation: more rats.
@WillWiles looks at what lessons can be learned from rat ecosystems – for both rats and humans.
Will Wiles - Puss Gets the Boot
Will Wiles: Puss Gets the Boot - Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B ...
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Twisters features destructive tempests and blockbuster action sequences.
@JonathanRomney asks what the real danger is in Lee Isaac Chung's disaster movie.
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