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On Censorship | Salman Rushdie | New Yorker | 15 May 2012

The Browser — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:40:39 +0000

Superb short essay in favour of boat-rocking. "Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes." This is where great art comes from. If we believe in liberty, we must celebrate it

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The Devils In The Diva | Mark Seal | Vanity Fair | 08 May 2012

The Browser — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:21:27 +0000

Huge feature revisits Whitney Houston's life, and death. How one of the greatest female vocalists in history fell foul of hard drugs, and toxic relationships. “She became a huge star but, like so many creations, they fall apart”

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The Cold War Rival To Eurovision | Steve Rosenberg | BBC | 14 May 2012

The Browser — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:06:45 +0000

Remembering Intervision, Soviet Union's version of Eurovision song contest. Concept came from Wladyslaw Szpilman, hero of Polanski's film The Pianist. Aim was "to prove to the West that 'anything you can sing, we can sing better'"

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Broken Record | James Wood | New Yorker | 14 May 2012

The Browser — Tue, 15 May 2012 06:52:15 +0000

Captivating review of Laurent Binet's new historical novel "HHhH", about rise and fall of Reinhard Heydrich. SS intelligence chief known as "Himmler's brain". Planned Kristallnacht, convened infamous Wannsee Conference. Assassinated

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The Movie Vanishes

The Browser — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:35:39 +0000

How Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2. Allegedly

Black Beauty

FiveBooks — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:16:59 +0000

By Anna Sewell

It was written in 1877, in the first person – which was ground-breaking at the time. Basically it is the memoir of a horse called Black Beauty

Mary King says: It was written in 1877, in the first person – which was ground-breaking at the time. Basically it is the memoir of a horse called Black Beauty

Audrey Penn says: This book is very tough for me to read. But if you want to equate my illness with anything, you can equate it with Black Beauty

Amanda Craig says: I find it odd that people don’t realise how revolutionary this book is. It is the autobiography of a horse, written in the first person. It really got the animal rights movement going. It really was a novel that changed how people saw another species.

Amanda Craig

Audrey Penn

Mary King

Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and Emotion Through Time

The Browser — Sun, 13 May 2012 09:59:39 +0000

How classical music developed through written notation, the record, and the re-mix

Word On The Suite | Ludovic Hunter-Tilney | FT | 12 May 2012

The Browser — Sun, 13 May 2012 07:00:29 +0000

"Rap has lost touch with a lot of its roots," says Public Enemy's Chuck D. Compare Kanye West with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to see what he means. Rap began as hard-hitting, social commentary. Now it's like rock music

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Walt Disney's Taxi Driver

The Browser — Sat, 12 May 2012 10:30:14 +0000

Travis Bickle, meet Mickey Mouse

Bad For You | Stephen Akey | Open Letters Monthly | 01 May 2012

The Browser — Sat, 12 May 2012 07:04:30 +0000

"We read poetry because we love it but also because we sense that it’s good for us. It sensitizes us, makes us more aware, opens us up, keeps us sharp – doesn’t it? Lately I’ve had some doubts. Lately I’ve been reading Sylvia Plath"

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