Writing For His Country

Andrew Devis and Alice Irizarry talk about a way anybody can reduce stress and enjoy life more.https://spotlightenglish.com/health-medicine/hobbies-make-us-happy/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-ap ... Show More

Colin Lowther and Alice Irizarry talk about how four boys from working class families in Liverpool became one of the most influential rock bands of all time.https://spotlightenglish.com/music/the-beatles/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our ... Show More

Andrew and Paula Devis talk about the importance of honesty in sports and also in one’s own character.https://spotlightenglish.com/sport/an-honest-game/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook ... Show More

Jhumpa Lahiri, author of several highly acclaimed novels, described in her memoir In Other Words her passionate romance with the Italian language. She now continues that passionate engagement with the country and its literature as the editor of a new Penguin Book of Italian Short ... Show More

Soledad from Honduras shares her story about learning multiple languages and how it helped her get out of a country full of violence, corruption, and inequality. 

<p>If you’ve been following The Art of Manliness for awhile, you know we’re big fans of Theodore Roosevelt. <a href="http://strenuouslife.co/" target="_blank">The man embodied the Strenuous Life.</a> He was a rancher, a soldier, a hunter, a statesman, and a practitioner of boxing ... Show More

Jhumpa Lahiri is best known for her fictional stories about immigration; novels that usually explore themes that arise from living in between two worlds. In her new book of essays, Translating Myself and Others, Lahiri writes about the ways in which she herself has lived between ... Show More

Send us a textMichelle Adams, a best selling author, originally from the UK who lives in Cyprus, talks to us openly about the real life behind her dream job of writing, with its challenges and perks. She is a wife and mother, and shares with us her personal story about moving cou ... Show More

How novelists working across popular genres like crime, horror and fantasy are overcoming literary snobbery to get their work the credit it deserves and broaden the definition of what makes truly great writing. South Korean horror writer Bora Chung, shortlisted for the 2022 Inter ... Show More

There is no one quite like Kenji Miyazawa. Born into wealth, he longed to be “a real peasant”. One of Japan’s most influential children’s writers, he sold only one story during his lifetime.Read Japanese Literature takes a look at Miyazawa's colorful biography through three of hi ... Show More

On this episode of Our American Stories, this story was made into a 2014 motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie based on the 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. While some of the most remarkable pa ... Show More

<p>Cent cinquante ans après la parution des <em>Misérables</em>, Victor Hugo est toujours d’actualité. Écrivain illustre quoique controversé, Victor Hugo, par l’ampleur de son œuvre et de ses engagements politiques, a gardé une place d’honneur au panthéon des lettres franc ... Show More