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Today’s Geo Quiz follows in the wake of the Half Moon. 400 years ago, a Dutch ship sailed up the river were looking for today. The captain and crew were on an expedition for the Dutch East India Company…
A List of Music Featured Between our reports for September 9, 2009
A new video game hits shelves across the globe today. The Beatles: Rock Band allows you to play along with John, Paul, George and Ringo. But the fact that kids are pressing buttons, and not playing actual instruments, has some real rockers upset. We’ll have that story later today on the program. (Audio available after 5PM Eastern)
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This week’s podcast explores clashing interpretations of what went wrong in 1939. We talk to Holocaust survivors too. And Marco Werman has a musical footnote to our coverage of the history and politics of the African country of Gabon.
“The Stalin Epigram” is offered as a novelist’s homage to Osip Mandelstam, the poet who embodied both a new era in Russian poetry and the martyrdom of Russia’s intelligentsia under Stalinism. But the book turns out to be a crown of thorns, a posthumous offense to a poet who has few defenders at the ready to fence for his honor.
Colombian author Evelio Rosero has been writing about the miseries of his homeland for three decades now. His novels, many of which take on the internecine wars, kidnappings, murders, and political upheavals of his country, have won numerous awards (including, humorously enough, the National Literature Prize from the Colombian Ministry of Culture). His work is notorious for being brutally realistic, even hyperrealistic, and “The Armies,” which won 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, is no exception.
