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Día De Muertos — A Holiday That Revolves Almost Entirely Around Food
Over the last decade, movies like Coco or The Book of Life have introduced the Mexican tradition of Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, to greater, international audiences. It was even named a UNESCO World Heritage holiday all the way back in 2008. But among the colorful and flowery imagery that is produced by the holiday, the most striking is that of food.
Why Everyone Is Obsessed With Making A Meal In Just One Bowl
Have you noticed that, lately, every new trendy meal idea comes in a bowl? They are becoming inescapable. Whether you want Mexican food, Japanese food, or Mediterranean food, there is a place where you can get all these flavors in a bowl. Bowls are everywhere, not just in restaurants either. Recipes all across TikTok or Instagram Reels are full of balanced bowl recipes that are seemingly endless. And it really makes me want to ask why.
Faye Gaël’s Jacaranda: Shockwaves of the Rwandan Genocide
Gaël’s novel revisits a painful period in Rwanda’s history through the eyes and hearts of new generations When I first read Maus, the now classic graphic novel exploring the Holocaust and its aftermath, I recall feeling very uneasy after a specific scene — Artie’s father telling his New York City raised-son not to cry over his neighborhood friends leaving because those aren’t really “friends,” and that he would know about that if he had spent any time in a concentration camp in Europe, like...
The Power of Creative Nonfiction
Cover for the English translation of Neige Sinno's Triste Tigre. Even though French literature is quite diverse in terms of genre, many still associate it with the Novel. The association is not meritless. From the Romantics like Rousseau and Chateaubriand to realists like Balzac and Zola, from modernist storyteller Proust to angsty Camus, and from whimsical Perec to gloomy Houellebecq, the tradition has plenty of easily identifiable novelists.
Labor As Literature: Novels About What It Is Like to Work Today
For some reason, last decade there were quite a few hit singles reflecting on — somewhat figuratively and tongue-in-cheek, admittedly — the pros and cons labor. Britney Spears’s “Work B*tch,” Fifth Harmony’s “Work From Home,” and Rihanna’s “Work” played the word “work” repeatedly in millions of car stereos across North America as millions of workers headed to work. These are not musical compositions known for their depth, but their popularity does hint at some present attitudes towards work.
Keep Reading
If you have read two or more entries in this blog, you know that I like French books. I want others to like them as much as me. As a child, the public education system of the country I grew up instilled reading into me as a noble pursuit. Reading helps you improve your writing, your critical thinking skills, and takes you places far beyond your bedroom. Of course, not all reading materials are equal, but even so-called “lowbrow” literature may help you sharp your thinking and enrich your soul.
Longings for the Other, Longings for the Self
Longings for the Other, Longings for the Self I have been thinking lately about the romanticization of foreign cultures across different periods of French literary production. In the Renaissance, Montaigne compared the so-called cannibals of modern-day Brazil (the Indigenous Tupi peoples) to Europeans, arguing that the outrage of the latter over the questionable eating practices of the former were hypocritical at a time when Europeans were massacring each other over their religious beliefs.
A Different Reviewer's Life
Somebody I follow on social media recently shared a piece titled "A Reviewer's Life" by writer Christine Smallwood in The Yale Review. The subheading, "The material constraints of writing criticism today," promised a much-needed conversation on the privilege of doing criticism. It turned out to be an empty promise. This brief piece, of course, could not have surveyed extensively the material constraints of criticism, but an attempt would have been welcome.
Ordinary Treasures: Objects from Home
I am going to start with breathing what I push out of me and what you push out of you and what we push out of each other lungs working like billows lungs working sounds you could read on the air is angry now The air is thick with solidarity by Essa May Ranapiri A bloodstained Nicaraguan flag, a jacket full of memories, necklaces that are rarely taken off- gifted by family members, shoes that dance, a Tibetan sound bowl that brings peace and healing – all feature in our DCU Irish Refugee...
Snapshots of Morocco
Abdellah Taïa is undoubtedly one of North Africa's biggest names in literature. His autobiographically-inspired books have led readers and critics alike to interest insights about life in Morocco and in Europe, about being queer in a variety of settings, about family and love, and about literature itself. His impressive career began with the short book Another Morocco: Selected Stories (in French, Mon Maroc).
the Nouveau Enfant Terrible of French Literature?
I picked up a copy of Constance Debré's Nom recently, after having heard that independent press Semiotext(e) had recently translated some of her earlier works. Semiotext(e) has a reputation for introducing Anglophone readers to intellectually stimulating theoretical texts from Europe and Latin America, so I assumed that Debré's work would fit well the trendy genre of autofiction with a sprinkle of academic commentary, much like works by Annie Ernaux or Didier Eribon.
Watchung Hills students meet 'Kids Like Us' author
WARREN TWP. – One of the highlights of the first part of the 2018-19 school year at Watchung Hills Regional High School (WHRHS) was the opportunity for students to meet, hear from, and ask questions of novelist Hilary Reyl, author of the “school-wide read,” “Kids Like Us.” Reyl, of New York City, spoke to students during assemblies held at the school on Wednesday, Oct. 17, in the school’s South Auditorium.
Cardinal Oddi on Fatima’s Third Secret, the Second Vatican Council, and Apostasy
Cardinal Silvio Oddi, who died in 2001, was one of the most outspoken conservative prelates of his time. He also has a special place in the history of the debate about the message of Fatima, inasmuch as he insistently tried to get Pope John XXIII to publish the Third Secret of Fatima. As the British newspaper The Telegraph reported upon his death: In yet another unguarded interview, published in 1990, Cardinal Oddi spoke about his relationship with John XXIII.
Cardinal Oddi on Fatima’s Third Secret, the Second Vatican Council, and Apostasy
Cardinal Silvio Oddi, who died in 2001, was one of the most outspoken conservative prelates of his time. He also has a special place in the history of the debate about the message of Fatima, inasmuch as he insistently tried to get Pope John XXIII to publish the Third Secret of Fatima. As the British newspaper The Telegraph reported upon his death: In yet another unguarded interview, published in 1990, Cardinal Oddi spoke about his relationship with John XXIII.
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