Richard Lea

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Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Richard Lea

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Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Richard Lea

Frederick Forsyth, the author who turned his adventures as a journalist and work with MI6 into bestselling thrillers, has died after a brief illness aged 86. Forsyth brought a reporter’s eye to his fiction, transforming the thriller genre with a series of novels including The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File and The Dogs of War.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Richard Lea |Sian Cain

The Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who was censored, imprisoned and forced into exile by the dictator Daniel arap Moi, a perennial contender for the Nobel prize for literature and one of few writers working in an indigenous African language, has died aged 87. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our dad, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, this Wednesday morning,” wrote his daughter Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ on Facebook.
Mario Vargas Llosa, giant of Latin American literature, dies aged 89

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Richard Lea

Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the pivotal figures who ignited a global boom in Latin American literature, has died aged 89. His death on Sunday was announced in a statement from his children, Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa. Over a career that spanned more than 50 years, Vargas Llosa charted power and corruption in a series of novels including The Time of the Hero, Conversation in the Cathedral and The Feast of the Goat.
Building a world through playful free association

Jan 8, 2025 | the-tls.co.uk | Heather White |Susie Mesure |Mia Levitin |Richard Lea

Lynne Tillman’s American Genius, a Comedy follows a woman over the course of a day during her stay in an artist’s retreat. The woman doesn’t use the term “artist’s retreat”, but she does call the people who are there with her “residents” or “fellows”. Each of them arrives and leaves at personally determined intervals; each issues elaborate dietary instructions to the beleaguered kitchen staff; and each, it transpires over time, practises a different arcane art.
Einstein’s Tutor by Lee Phillips

Dec 11, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Matthew Stanley |Hunter Dukes |Frances Wood |Richard Lea

The ideas of the German-Jewish mathematician Emmy Noether (not least the four-part theorem that bears her name) laid the foundation for much of modern physics, yet it is the case that students today can complete their degrees without having heard of her. Einstein’s Tutor by Lee Phillips seeks both to remedy this problem and understand how it came to be. Noether was born in Erlangen, Bavaria, in 1882, the daughter of the mathematician Max Noether.
A Catalog of Benevolent Items (Paul U. Unschuld, editor)

Dec 11, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Frances Wood |Matthew Stanley |Hunter Dukes |Richard Lea

The Ming doctor Li Shizhen’s pharmacopoeia is widely known in China, and the man himself has appeared on postage stamps and in a popular film of 1956, in which he is depicted clambering over mountains in search of medicinal herbs. The Ben cao gang mu was first printed in the year of his death, 1593, but is still recognized as the main historical source of reference for Chinese materia medica – contemporary researchers plough through it looking for new cures from ancient recipes.
UFOs and the men and women who claim to have seen them

Oct 30, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Richard Lea |Kathryn Harkup |Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow |Anthony Grafton

It is hard to admit when we don’t know something. We often prefer to flannel or fabricate than to say we don’t have the answer. According to the philosopher Andy Clark, this tendency to invent runs deep. We perceive the world by constructing mental models and seeing where those models don’t apply – an account of perception that suggests illusions are simply ordinary cognitive processing confronted with extraordinary situations.
Irish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

Jul 28, 2024 | msn.com | Richard Lea

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Irish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

Jul 28, 2024 | msn.com | Richard Lea

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