A French children's education magazine that provoked a firestorm of criticism on Sunday after deeming Israel a state with disputed legitimacy along with the likes of North Korea, said it will remove the edition from sale. The publisher Editions Bayard Jeunesse apologized, “to all those who may have been
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By Current Publishing on December 25, 2017 Night & Day. By Mark Johnson. Noblesville's Bruce Neckar doesn't conider himself a wildlife artist. “It just happens,” he said. “There is no formula.” Yet, Neckar's Noblesville studio features a vast array of wildlife art. Bruce Neckar in his studio. (Submitted
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As snow continues to fall on this white Christmas, take a look back at historic photographs of Detroit covered in snow from the late 1800 and early 1900s. The images show children ice skating on Belle Isle, a towering ice fountain on Washington Boulevard and a ferry crossing the icy Detroit River.
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Now Dr. Berliner is publishing a new book. This time it is a book of of humoristic poems in his native tongue – German. The book's title “Humor a la shmirgelpapier” (Sandpaper Humor) is indicative of Berliner's style: keen, razor-sharp humor written by a perceptive observer of human nature. The book
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Awards, he believed, only obscured the relationship between the reader and the word on the page, with the razzle-dazzle of celebrity. Suffice to say, Sartre would have had a thing or two to say to publishers and their marketing machines. Unlike in the past, when poets and artists were dependent on the
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With Christmas right around the corner it seemed like a good time to reflect on something that seems to always bubble up this time of year: family. Depending on your family, it may be cause for a supreme eye roll or a full-throttle about face followed with a sprint for the hills. For others, it could mean the
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