Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,” will be published in the United States on Aug. 12, Alfred A. Knopf has announced. The novel was an enormous hit in Japan in April, where it sold more than a million copies in its first week, according to Knopf.
“The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.”
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Kate Chopin, born Katherine O’Flaherty (February 8, 1850 — August 22, 1904), was an American author of short stories and novels. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century.
Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
2. Match the following words with their antonyms.
| Contraction detached join ambitious alive Exciting quarrelsome endless traditional determined |
1. to separate, not to take part in :
2. boring :
3. long form, expansion :
4. innovative :
Cheese on toast, curry or a pint of bitter … if you’ve been abroad, what food and drink is first on your list when you get home?
Biting into a generous cheesy wedge feels like home.’ Photograph: Rex Features
I’m sitting in Changi airport in Singapore, thinking about food. Having bulldozed my way through the city’s hawker markets on a stopover from Australia, my mind is on my next meal. Not the foil-wrapped tray that awaits me, but a proper taste of home.
I’ve been away from the UK for 15 months, and in that time been asked what I miss, crave and covet. A greasy spoon fry-up, a bacon sandwich, Sunday lunch or a binge of Monster Munch and the Beeb? It’s like being asked to pick my favourite song. Home is London. It’s Yorkshire and Lancashire, too. All play parts in my life and shape my tastes. Choosing between them is too loaded for me to consider on an empty stomach, so rather than a homecoming meal, I am preparing for a homecoming food journey.
Photograph by Caruso Furyk, National Geographic Your Shot
Umbrellas shade novice monks at a pagoda in Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma). «It was a fine day, with sunny weather,» writes Caruso Furyk, who submitted this picture to our Your Shot community.
1. Match the given words with their synonyms.
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Comfortable believe quarrel admire couch cuisine magazine tease fan disgusted subject tolerance instructor endless patience |
1. periodical, journal :
2. branch of learning, field of study :
3. relaxing, restful :
4. Acceptance :
5. settee, sofa :
PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL NICHOLS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
The new ivory rules ban the commercial import of African elephant ivory.
New restrictions on the ivory trade designed to create «a near complete ban» on the commercial sale of African elephant ivory in the U.S. were announced Tuesday by the Obama Administration.
Elephants and rhinos have taken center stage in global coverage of illegal wildlife trafficking, and the ivory restrictions are a cornerstone of the administration’s new plan. (Read » Blood Ivory» in National Geographic magazine.)
UNCHAIN MY HEART
by Joe Cocker
Unchain my heart.
Baby, let me be,
‘Cause you don’t care.
Please, set me free.
Unchain my heart,
Baby, let me go.
Unchain my heart,
‘Cause you don’t love me no more.
CBS’s «Grammy Salute» Belongs to McCartney and Starr.If there’s one thing pop learned in the last 50 years, it’s that Beatles songs never wear out their welcome. The Beatles’ original recordings have retained not only their musical brilliance but also the nearly universal good will that the band generated in its time, as well as the accumulated nostalgia that makes baby boomers conflate its music with all the pleasures of their youth.
All Bark And No Bite
When someone is threatening and/or aggressive but not willing to engage in a fight.
Perro ladrador, poco mordedor.
Hugh Turvey is a British artist and photographer who uses x-ray technology to create what he calls Xograms, a fusion of visible light and x-ray imagery. I first worked with him for an assignment in the magazine and have to come to rely on his expertise when it comes to seeing the unseen. I spoke with him about his work and recent photo published in the February issue of National Geographic magazine.
X-ray of a goldfish in a bowl.
I am an experimentalist and I think in images. Since I started working with x-ray in the late 1990’s, I am constantly amazed with how little I know.” —Hugh Turvey