Articles June 2012

• Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs and the Dot-Com Revolution
• A Portrait of Egypt in Flux: Naguib Mahfouz’s Palace Walk
• Renee Cox: Challenging Stereotypes and Empowering Minorities Through Art
• Zhu Yu: China's Baby-Eating Shock Artist Goes Hyperreal
• Cormac McCarthy: Southern Literature's Adopted Son
• Gender in Sound: Lis Rhodes’ Light Music 
• How The Laos Film Industry Got Going Again
• The Works of Frans Eemil Sillanpää: An Exploration of Finnish National Identity
• Halldór Kiljan Laxness: the Writer who Found Enlightenment in Religion
• Three Polish Directors: Polanski, Kieślowski, Wajda
• Minimalist and Hypnotic Choreographer: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
• Miguel Ángel Asturias: Preserving Guatemalan Roots
• Social Exclusion, Candomblé And The Origins Of Samba In Rio De Janeiro
• Fashioning French Theatre: Molière’s Coincidence of Opposites
• William S. Burroughs: Beyond the Beats
• London Twist: The Story Behind Anish Kapoor's Orbit
• French or Polynesian: The Curious Case of Wallis and Futuna
• Vital Film Directors From Vietnam
• The 6 Most Powerful Yasmin Ahmad Films To Watch
• An afternoon in Paris with Russian artist Daria Surovtseva
• Augusto Roa Bastos: Discovering Paraguay between its Reality and its Myths
• Making Poetry Out Of Politics: Gabriela Mistral And Pablo Neruda
• Don DeLillo: Parsing the White Noise
• Juan Diego Flórez: Pavarotti’s Heir
• Suburban Consciousness Explored in John Updike’s Rabbit
• The Shah’s Art Collection: An Unexpected Treasure
• Nguyễn Huy Thiệp: Chronicling Modern Vietnam
• The Orchestra Bridging The Israeli-Palestinian Divide
• Sinclair Lewis: Unravelling the American Dream
• Maimonides: Medieval Philosopher of Judaism
• Secrets of the Incas: Guides to the study of the Civilization
• Multatuli’s Max Havelaar and the Dutch in East Asia
• MCK: Lyrics Of Resistance
• Roger Casement: An Ambivalent Hero
• 'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives': the First Southeast Asian Cannes Winner
• Pearl S. Buck: China Watcher Par Excellence
• Nicolai Michoutouchkine: Preserving Pacific Arts
• Richard Zimler: Mastering the Art of Historical Noir
• Yoko Ono: The World's Most Famous Unknown Artist
• Toni Morrison And The Pursuit Of An African-American Identity
• Norman Mailer and Philip Roth: New Jersey and the Re-invention of Modern Fiction
• Taras Shevchenko and the Search for a Ukrainian Literary Identity
• Ali Al Jallawi: The Poet's Voice From Bahrain
• Five Polish Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature
• The Mad Men of Tala Madani
• Arthur Bispo do Rosário: Art As Salvation
• The Holocaust Taboo in Arab literature: Boualem Sansal and Elias Khoury
• Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present, and Overwhelmingly So
• Shumon Ahmed's Home Land: A Photographic Exploration of Bangladeshi Identity