Literature

The deal also includes “matching rights” in other Middle-earth-related literary works authorized by the Tolkien Estate and HarperCollins

Ptuj – Ptuj, the oldest Slovenian town, will be the main venue of the 26th Days of Poetry and Wine, an international literary festival that will host 20 poets from ten countries. The guests of honour will be Carolyn Forche of the US and Poland’s Tomasz Rožycki.

Ljubljana – Ljubljana and Maribor are hosting the 12th iteration of the International Translation Seminar of Slovenian Literature until 20 August. Eleven translators from nine countries are taking part.

The cultural tier has to do with language and public imagination. The strategy is far more insidious than just taking part in public debate. Anti-choice propaganda is relentless, loud, gruesome and repetitive. It ignores reality, it appeals to deep-felt anxieties. It can be brutal, as with images of cut-up, bloody foetuses paraded in front of schools or driven around on the sides of vans.

Stephen King on beginning IT by killing off a 6-year-old

By Dr Pierre Casse, IEDC Professor and Elnura Irmatova, IEDC Research Assistan "I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability" Oscar Wilde Background God (the ultimate leader!) has always been questioned and even challenged. It seems that human beings have a very strong need to get an answer to a simple question: Why do we exist?

The mystery surrounding Matthew Fox‘s Hollywood vanishing act has been solved.

If Dr. Seuss sculpted Mars, it would look like this

Why it matters

It is an initiative of the great American composer and philhellene Desmond Child