March 2018 – Encyclopedia of World Literature

List of books about beauty

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Title Author Year Waves Of Beauty Pushpadanta and Adi Shankara **** The Analysis of Beauty William Hogarth 1753 The Sense of Beauty George Santayana 1896 Health and Beauty Hints Margaret Mixter 1910 [1] A Success Story Estee Lauder 1986 Making Faces Kevyn Aucoin 1999 Face Forward Kevyn Aucoin 2000 Egyptian Queen Beauty Book Delia Pemberton 2001 Ayurvedic […]

Ray Romano covers Beyoncé in the first Made for Love trailer.
Yes, you read that headline correctly. The first trailer for Made for Love—the upcoming HBO adaptation of Alyssa Nutting’s batshit 2017 novel—has hit the internet, and it is weird in all the most wondrous ways. Chief among them: the dulcet tones of Ray Romano, who soundtracks the action with a spoken-word rendition of Beyoncé’s “Crazy […]
10 writers we’d like to see as politicians.
On this day in 1945, ardent lover of the working class man (and woman, of all classes) Pablo Neruda was elected as a communist senator for the northern Chilean provinces. Neruda, long an admirer of Vladimir Lenin, saw the Soviet Union as the great vanquisher of fascism, and held great hopes for its putatively noble […]
Anonymous Content is turning Detransition, Baby into a tv show.
Wonderful news, and not a moment too soon! Deadline reported this morning that Torrey Peters’s novel Detransition, Baby is in development as a half-hour dramedy. It’s being developed by Anonymous Content, the production company behind Being John Malkovich, Spotlight, True Detective, Mr. Robot, and The OA, among other projects; the husband-and-wife producing team Joan Rater […]
An audio deepfake of Gucci Mane can now read you classic books.
Weird news of the day: the viral creation collective MSCHF has used machine learning to create an audio deepfake of rapper Gucci Mane reading classic texts. MSCHF collected six hours of audio from podcasts and interviews, transcribed them, and created a pronunciation key/dictionary to capture the rapper’s vocal idiosyncrasies; now, Project Gucciberg (pun very intended) […]
Kazuo Ishiguro thinks artificial intelligence could replace human novelists.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel Klara and the Sun, which follows a robot as she tries to understand the human world, has been praised as “a masterpiece about life, love, and mortality” and “a work that makes us feel afresh the beauty and fragility of our humanity” —but according to Ishiguro, he might not have to […]

Month: March 2018

List of books about beauty

“Insomnia”, TAHAR BEN JELLOUN.

Gonzalo Aurelio Esteva y Landero

James Joyce

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