What is it about major news media and hospitals? First it was The New York Times, saying that a Gaza Hospital had been hit by an Israeli airstrike. That was wrong on all counts. This week, it was the BBC, saying the Israeli army targeting medical staffs and Arabic speakers when it entered the large hospital compound in Gaza. Oops, a slight misquote. At least the BBC apologized within minutes; it took the Times a week.
Years back, I discovered and fell in love with the stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer, even before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Singer has a purpose in his stories, and that was to preserve in written form the Yiddish culture that had been destroyed by the Nazis. David Stromberg as edited and translated Singer’s stories from the war years, and he explains how the writer preserved European Jewish life through literature.
If you have the opportunity to see the Elgin marbles at the British Museum, better grab it sooner rathe than later. George Osborne, the museum’s chairman, says he’s eager to “reach a Parthenon Marbles deal,” reports Martin Bailey at The Art Newspaper.
More Good Reads
News Media
A cautionary tale about Wikipedia censorship and the Twitter files – Becket Adams at The Spectator.
American Stuff
America’s Alarming Debt Trap – Tim Congdon at The Critic Magazine.
The Whisky Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis by Brady Crytzer – book review by Eric Sterner at American Revolutionary War Era.
Grant & McClellan: Why Grant Succeeded – Andrew Lucien at American Civil War & UK History.
Writing and Literature
Write Better and Faster (and Reach More People) When You Write in Public – Ann Kroeker, Writing Coach.
Shakespeare’s Folio Was Stolen Many, Many Times – Alicia Andrzejewski and Carole Levin at CrimeReads.
Gatsby: Grasping for Transcendence – Frank DeVito at Front Porch Republic.
Faith
Why I Am Now a Christian – Ayaan Hirsi Ali at The Free Press.
The Lions’ Grave – Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule.
The History of Study Bibles – Stephen Nichols at Ligonier.
Life and Culture
Paul Kingsnorth and “The Blizzard of the World” – John Murdock at Front Porch Republic.
The American Multimillionaire Marxists Funding Pro-Palestinian Rage – Francesca Block at The Free Press.
British Stuff
The “UK Files”: A History of the Center for Countering Digital Hate – Paul Holden at Racket News.
“UK Files” Reports Show: Both Left and Right Can Be Target of Censors – Matt Taibbi at Racket News.
Lost in Long Forgotten London and Sights of Wonderful London – Spitalfields Life.
Poetry
My Little Poem: Beauty – Megan Willome on “Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Lux Aeterna – Paul Wittenberger at Paul’s Substack.
The Gift – David Nevue
Painting: Man Reading, oil on canvas (1922) by Eduard von Gebhardt (1838-1925).
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