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Review: Jim Holt's compelling 'Why Does the World Exist?'
-------------------- Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story Jim Holt Liveright: 310 pp., $27.95 -------------------- "How old is the Universe?" Kurt Vonnegut asked in his 1973 novel "Breakfast of Champions." "It is one half-second...
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The stitching hour
Fashion students get used to pulling all-nighters in the studio as deadlines approach.
But heading into the 11th annual Driehaus Awards for Fashion Excellence recently, Maribel Dinwiddie thought she could rest easy, knowing her last loose thread had been...Tags: Teaching and Learning, New Products, Conde Nast Publications, Columbia College Chicago, Students
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Critic's Notebook: Under the influence of Hemingway
![For much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises" in high school and had admired its spare portrayal of 1920s expatriate life. But I'd also thought of it as more than a little stilted, even melodramatic in its way.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-06/62887735-30134252.jpg "For much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises\" in high school and had admired its spare portrayal of 1920s expatriate life. But I'd also thought of it as more than a little stilted, even melodramatic in its way.")
Los Angeles Times Book CriticFor much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises"...Tags: History, Petroleum Industry, New York, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford
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Film Independent announces lineup for Los Angeles Film Festival
24 Frames"Magic Mike," Steven Soderbergh's dramatic comedy set in the world of male strippers, will have its world premiere as the closing night program of the Los Angeles Film Festival next month. The film, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Channing Tatum,... -
Music review: Monday Evening Concerts premieres Kurtag's Beckett
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews the terrifying and cathartic performance of baritone Nicholas Isherwood in the Monday Evening Concerts U.S. premiere of György Kurtág’s “…pas á pas – nulle part....”... -
Albert Camus died on this day in 1960
Jacket CopyWhen French writer Albert Camus was killed in a car wreck 52 years ago, he was carrying a manuscript that would be published only decades later.... -
Goodness! (Continued)
Change of SubjectThe conclusion of Who Needs God?, the post by writer, lecturer and broadcaster Kenan Malik that touched off a good discussion here the other day, ought to spark more reflection: I want to finish this talk with French Algerian existential...... -
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Theatre Y offers imaginative look into outcasts
![<strong>"Exiles"</strong>](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-07/63237766-14112519.jpg "<strong>"Exiles\"</strong>")
"Exiles"
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Until this spring, Chicago's Theatre Y focused exclusively on Romanian playwright Andras Visky, with productions of "Juliet: A Dialogue About Love" and "I Killed My Mother," both of which have toured internationally. But the company...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Human Interest, Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Chicago Hotels
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Henry Carlisle dies at 84; author, translator helped bring Solzhenitsyn's work to Western audiences
![Henry Carlisle, a San Francisco author, translator and former editor who with his wife helped bring two works<b> </b>by <a href="http://lat.ms/r3Fsel">Alexander Solzhenitsyn</a> to Western audiences, has died. He was 84.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-07/63619836-29195041-187105.jpg "Henry Carlisle, a San Francisco author, translator and former editor who with his wife helped bring two works<b> </b>by <a href="http://lat.ms/r3Fsel\">Alexander Solzhenitsyn</a> to Western audiences, has died. He was 84.")
Henry Carlisle, a San Francisco author, translator and former editor who with his wife helped bring two works by Alexander Solzhenitsyn to Western audiences, has died. He was 84.
Carlisle died of complications from pneumonia July 11 in San Francisco,...Tags: Wallace Stegner, Nobel Prize Awards, Politics, Career and Workplace, Elections
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C'est vrai? Camus was killed by the KGB?
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Happy birthday, Marilyn Monroe
Jacket CopyHappy 85th birthday, Marilyn Monroe, reader of Ulysses and Bertrand Russell....
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