Global Political Cartoons: October 2 – 8, 2010

Kim Jong Un, the ‘hair’ apparent, the Blue Danube turns red, and the Australian dollar inches in value toward the greenback, and adjusting to a terror alert in Europe.

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World Books: Herta Müller, Memory, and the Nobel

Now that the predictable “who is she?” brouhaha over this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for literature has ended, it is time to explore the artistry of Herta Müller, whose books consistently denounce the corruption of language and memory, often by reworking her own past experiences in innovative, lyrical, and evocative prose.