Berfrois Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Arup K. Chatterjee’s Indians in London: From the Birth of the East India Company to Independent India admirably establishes how London has been remade by the contributions of various migrants and travellers over the past five centuries... https://t.co/oK9BbVpwhb

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There was no culture whose folklore did not have at least one tale where a girl had not turned into a tree... https://www.berfrois.com/2021/10/excerpt-how-i-became-a-tree-by-sumana-roy/ @SumanaSiliguri @yalepress

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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished. https://t.co/KpEyAjzrs5

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An excerpt from Virginia Woolf's 1931 novel The Waves https://t.co/RV9iUM8BAR

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In their various representations of night and adaptations of jazz forms, Langston Hughes and Joy Harjo have written poems in which relations across cultures, generations and races reverberate... https://t.co/gw9UkFyWGx

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Excerpt: What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language by Daniel Levin Becker https://t.co/4etlgGbL1d @dlb @CityLightsBooks

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In 1977, Umberto Eco, then a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna in Italy, published How To Write a Thesis, a book for his college students facing the challenge of the university thesis (the famous Italian laurea)... https://t.co/fal5ErJot6

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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. — Jean-Luc Godard (December 3 1930 – September 13 2022) https://t.co/Pr5pcU9Igq

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An excerpt from Virginia Woolf's 1931 novel The Waves https://t.co/RV9iUM8BAR

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Stuart Walton: Beneath the profanities and the cultural motley, James Joyce's Ulysses is powered by love, its helpless emergence in the lives of the bruised and the blessed alike. https://t.co/pVXiYu6Lxb @StuartWalton1 #JamesJoyce #Ulysses