On 1 May, only five days after news broke that a 73-year-old man, Josef Fritzl, had immured one of his seven children, his 18-year-old daughter Elisabeth, in a specially fortified cellar under his house in the small town of Amstetten
The American philosopher John Dewey thought that democracy should be like a giant conversation: the nation talking to itself about its hopes and fears and listening to what other people have to say. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) for Dewey, he
Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar (let's use the place names used by the World Food Programme) on 2 and 3 May, blasting the Ayeyarwady delta and the capital, Yangon. The population of the declared disaster areas - much of it the
Just a few days ago we mentioned one MNA story on translation in Iran, and now they offer another, as Abbas Pejman complains that Some translators ignore style and language of author.
In the Independent on Sunday Stephen Knight profiles poet and translator Michael Hofmann in Metric conversion, apparently explaining 'Why poet Michael Hofmann stopped 'wreaking destruction' on his family in verse'.
Yasmina Reza's account of A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy, Dawn, Dusk or Night, just came out in English, but in France there's a whole batch of new Sarkozy books, and at Bloomberg Jorg von Uthmann looks at some of them,
They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young and pretty Nancy Harkness was hired to demonstrate and sell airplanes. Predicted to replace the family car, the private plane was seen as the
