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    May 18, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Word power

    Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a fundamental role in defining a country's culture and its discourse.
    Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...

    Tags: Nathanael West, Museums, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Steve Jobs, Toni Morrison

    2. Jan 8, 2009 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. 'House of the Sleeping Beauties' stars Vadim Glowna

    Tribune critic
    The death-shrouded 1961 short story by Yasunari Kawabata, Japan's first Nobel Prize winner for literature, has been filmed twice before, and despite a culturally specific milieu it's conceivable a filmmaker could relocate the tale to a new setting and get...

    Tags: Gene Siskel, Entertainment, Nobel Prize Awards, Movies, Death

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