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İlkyaz Issue #32 Is Out!
In our over three years of publishing life, İlkyaz, meaning Early Spring, was able to bring to light over 300 young writers under the age of 35, some even under 15 years of age. We created collaborative ventures between writers in 14 countries, provided honorariums, amplifying their insights to around 5 thousand readers a month …
George Saunders on the Power of Kindness (Animated)
Animated adaptation of a commencement speech given by George Saunders at Syracuse University, May 2013. Cast & Credits Produced By: Above Average Adapted By: Tim Bierbaum Video Created by Serious Lunch: Tim Bierbaum Billy Keenly John Milhiser Anthony Miale Robert Officer Narration by George Saunders Illustrated by Tim Bierbaum Above Average Producer: Celeste …
Climate and Conflict Converge in “The Fire Brigade”
David Alexander’s documentary follows Malian refugees fighting wildfires, and attempting to put down roots, in Mauritania. Film by David Alexander Text by Ismail Ibrahim June 28, 2023 Source: The New Yorker Ablaze at night in the Sahel, chased and beaten by nomads in flip-flops wielding fronds, opens David Alexander’s “The Fire Brigade.” The scene forces viewers to …
Van Gogh on the Beauty of Sorrow and the Enchantment of Storms, in Nature and in Life
Source: BrainPickings Vincent Van Gogh recounts this transcendent encounter with nature to his brother: You know the landscape there, superb trees full of majesty and serenity beside green, dreadful, toy-box summer-houses, and every absurdity the lumbering imagination of Hollanders with private incomes can come up with in the way of flower-beds, arbours, verandas. Most of …
5 Deaths at Sea Gripped the World. Hundreds of Others Got a Shrug
Many see harsh realities about class and ethnicity in the attention paid to the Titan submersible and the halfhearted attempts to aid a ship before it sank, killing hundreds of migrants. But there are other factors. By Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times June 23, 2023 On one vessel, five people died on a very expensive excursion …
Hermann Hesse on the Value of Hardship and Solitude, the Courage to Be Yourself and How to Find Your Destiny
Source: BrainPickings Herman Hesse, Nobel Prize winner and author of renown works such as Siddharta, Narcissus and Goldmund was born this month in 1877. His advice on solitude and the courage to be yourself: “Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic …