The real Lord of the Flıes: what happened when sıx boys were shıpwrecked for 15 months
When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman Rutger Bregman, The Guardian, Saturday 9 May 2020 @rcbregman A still from the 1963 film of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Photograph: Ronald Grant For centuries western culture has been …
2 poems by Young Wrıter Hanna Komar from Belarusıan PEN
AFTERWARDS the bird flies out, the nestling watches her from its nest: the swing of her wings, the turn of her tail, the air yielding under them. horizon is tilted, the world around gets tightened in an egg. if she doesn’t come back the shell will be its home. BOUNDED Bounded by a semolina lump, …
Mary Shelley on the Courage to Speak Up Against Injustice and the Power of Words in Revising the World
“Words have more power than any one can guess; it is by words that the world’s great fight, now in these civilized times, is carried on.” BY MARIA POPOVA “To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men*,” the poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote in her 1914 anthem against silence — a …