16 apr 2023 om 05:08 Drag queen Ma’MaQueen has been reading to children at special events for years. Last week she suddenly became the subject of a fuss and a demonstration. The reading afternoons in a theater in Rotterdam are said to sexualize children. “There is nothing sexual about what I do there,” says Ma’MaQueen … Read more
Closures of small businesses serving the public always create a big wound in the neighborhoods. Whether it is a grocery store or a restaurant, a bookstore, when the blinds are lowered, the neighbors and customers raise their regrets, almost proportionally to the time the store had been established in the area. It would seem that … Read more
When it comes to epic fantasy, few franchises loom larger in popular imagination than The Lord of the Rings. First as a legendary trilogy of novels by J.R.R. Tolkien, and then as a groundbreaking film series, Peter Jackson’s adaptation of the sprawling story is nothing short of a cultural phenomenon. However, with the recent announcement … Read more
01 apr 2023 om 05:00 Maxime Meiland experienced quite a few tough moments in her younger years. Although we mainly know the Noordwijkse from the light-hearted Chateau Meiland, she shares this other side in her recently published biography. Despite the sensitive subject, she expects many negative reactions. To deal with this, Meiland also wants to … Read more
By Lucía Fernández Cívico “The Animal Seller” and “Never Happy”, by Bruno Munari, are books that can be found in the Children’s Literature section. Published by Niño Editor, they are part of the 1945 children’s series (although they are still extremely current). Who was Bruno Munari? We could summarize by saying that he was an … Read more
Murcia will commemorate the International Book Day with the celebration of the third edition of a conference that will be held between April 24 and 26 in the Aula de Cultura de la Mediterranean Foundation. Their director, Victorio Melgarejoalong with councilor Anthony Benedictpresented this morning a program that will begin with a poetry recital by … Read more
«I have prohibited the Spanish translation of the book. By contract. I do not want to contribute to bilingualization of Catalan literature». Júlia Bacardit, a Catalan writer who has defended in an interview published this week that she has only vetoed Spanish, and no other language, in her latest work, ‘A sentimental dietari’, has shown … Read more
Description Stage performance, dance film, YouTube clip and Co. – this volume is dedicated to the various intermedial relationships that dance and media have entered into and offers an innovative and vivid approach that transcends the boundaries of science. The first comprehensive investigation into the intermediality of dance opens up a new perspective on the … Read more
23 mrt 2023 om 05:09 The Da Vinci Code, The little Prince, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Don Quichot: thanks to translators we can read these books in Dutch. Converting a book to another language seems simple, but there is more to it than just copying the text from English, French or Japanese. Conversely, … Read more
Free of charge for a request from 5TT, as long as the postage does not increase, please PM, I will weigh/measure ———- DuMont direkt Hamburg presents the beautiful port city on the Elbe, where the fine esprit of the Hanseatic merchant spirit can still be felt. A busy port, the legendary Reeperbahn, lots of water, … Read more