To solve Turkey's culture clash, old elite must yield to free speech Nov 12, 2009
The poet Czeslaw Milosz used to talk about the "eternal moment" as "a gleam on the current of a black river" captured by mindfulness. "Mindfulness occurs in the moment when time stops," he said. (Christian Science Monitor)
Books about 1989: Wall stories Nov 9, 2009
Writers such as Solzhenitsyn, Czeslaw Milosz, a Polish poet, and Czech novelists such as Milan Kundera, Ivan Klima and Josef Skvorecky helped the world understand life under communism. But no writer from the region, in fact or fiction, has produced a matching account of the collapse of the Iron Curtain and its aftermath. (The Economist)
Winners of Nobel Prize in literature since 1960 Oct 8, 2009
1980: Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-born American. 1979: Odysseus Elytis, Greece. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Leaves and pages turn in the fall books preview Sep 7, 2009
A mammoth work, more than 800 pages long, whose many authors include Junot Daz, Jhumpa Lahiri and Czeslaw Milosz. Blues and Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Maud Wilcox, 86, longtime editor in chief at Harvard University’s publishing house Sep 6, 2009
Mrs. Wilcox, who along with Paz edited writers such as Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, critic Lionel Trilling, and literary scholar Edward Said, died of pneumonia June 25 in the Cambridge house she and her husband bought 61 years ago. She was 86. (Boston Globe)
Europe.view: Summer reading Aug 7, 2009
Your columnist flirted with some ambitious ideas such as rereading Czeslaw Milosz in Polish, or finishing the Miklos Banffy trilogy about aristocratic life in pre-communist Transylvania. What he actually ended up packing was a newly republished (by Faber & Faber) edition of William Palmer s neglected 1990 classic. (The Economist)
Obituary: Leszek Kolakowski Jul 31, 2009
For those involved in the struggle against communism, on both sides of the iron curtain, he became a guru, ranking along with Czeslaw Milosz, the ;migr; Polish poet whose book The Captive Mind , published in 1953, unpicked the mind-mangling effects of communist thought. In those early days, of course, Mr Kolakowski was still a loyal, if critical, party member. (The Economist)
Poetry Podcasts Feb 16, 2009
Poetry Off the Shelf, a series of readings, interviews, and documentaries produced by Curtis Fox features such poets as Seamus Heaney, Langston Hughes, and Czeslaw Milosz. Poem a Day, which is pretty self-explanatory, features the work of many well-known contemporary poets read by both poets and actors. (Suite101.com)
