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Novelist Ian McEwan Criticizes Israel During Acceptance Of Israeli Literary Prize

AP | DANIEL ESTRIN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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JERUSALEM — Renowned British novelist Ian McEwan accepted an Israeli literary prize in Jerusalem Sunday with harsh criticism of Jewish settlemen...

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Your Favorite Star-Crossed Lovers In Literature: Expect The Unexpected, Not Romeo And Juliet (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Star-Crossed Lovers, Star Crossed Lovers, Literature, Slidepollajax, Oedipus, Bert and Ernie, The Time Traveler's Wife, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ernest Hemingway, Atonement, The Sun Also Rises, Edith Wharton, Books News

Though Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet are the classic star-crossed lovers in books, and the play from which the phrase originates, we decided to add s...

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Dirty Girl

Hellin Kay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: John Waters, Melissa Manchester, William H. Macy, Abe Sylvia, Dwight Yoakam, Dirty Girl, Easy A, Mary Steenburgen, Pat Benetar, Le Tigre, Juno Temple, Atonement, Toronto International Film Festival, Milla Jovovich, John Hughes, The Other Boleyn Girl, Harvey Weinstein, Jeremy Dozier, Yaz, Rob Paris, Notes on a Scandal, Arts News
Hellin Kay

No doubt there will be minor comparisons made to the sweet and funny Easy A which just came out but this is a whole different teenage angst animal with even more subtext and soul.

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Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's 'Solar'

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Michiko Kakutani, Newspaper Reviewing, Solar, Postmodern Fiction, Fiction, British Fiction, Literary Criticism, Morality, Ron Charles, Book Reviewing, Atonement, Global Warming, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Franzen, Books News
Anis Shivani

What American reviewers have missed is that satire and history are coming together for the first time in McEwan's career.

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A Time of Forgiveness

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Each year during this time, many cultures around the world celebrate an occasion of forgiveness.

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Keeping Our Brothers, Keeping Ourselves: The Importance Of Personal And Communal Repentance

Ari Hart | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
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Ari Hart

We may not fix all the wrongs done by our fellow Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, or Hindus, but we have the power, and the responsibility, to be constantly improving ourselves and our communities.

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Yom Kippur, 2010 -- I Plead Guilty

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
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Bradley Burston

May our children see each other for what they are, sisters and brothers. And after all that they've gone through, for their sake if not for ours, inscribe them for a year of peace.

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Huffington Post Readers' Picks

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Last week, to celebrate the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, we published "8 Favorite Fictional Jewish Characters In Books". Readers responded in drove...

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Should A Book Pass The "Dead Tree" Test?

Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Authors, Free Books, Godin, Book Publishing, Ian McEwan, Physics, The Edge, Chris Anderson, Atonement, Free eBooks, Free-Ebooks, Human Genome, What Matters, Books News
Amy Hertz

Do you feel strongly enough about the impact of what you have to say that you can live with cutting down trees to make your book?

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Americans Need National Repentance and Atonement

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
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Rabbi Michael Lerner

America needs a period of atonement before rushing into the same mistakes we've been making globally and domestically. The Jewish tradition is useful in that it not only focuses on individual lives, but on collective responsibility.

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Ian McEwan: Americans Are 'Profoundly Bored' By Climate Change

Telegraph | Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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McEwan blamed American apathy for the negative reviews afforded to Solar, his satire about global warming. The New York Times critic dismissed Solar ...

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Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Michael Wood The New York Review of Books The Fat Man's Vengeance "Solar" by Ian McEwan Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 287 pp., $26.95 "He had it coming,...

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London Book Fair: Hollywood Scouts Crawling, But Are They Buying?

Variety | Adam Dawtrey | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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The London Book Fair has overtaken its rival in Frankfurt as the destination of choice for Hollywood scouts looking for books to turn into films or TV...

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Ten Books That Influenced Me: In a Blink

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: The Good Life, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Relationships, The Diary of a Young Girl, Atonement, Thomas Mann, Great Reads, Babar, The Diary of Anne Frank, Ian McEwan, The Magic Mountain, Solo Traveler, Anne Frank, Robert Persig, Reading, Harold Robbins, John Updike, Authors, Bestsellers, Books News
Lea Lane

When I got my MA in English Lit I had to read more than 100 great works. I was 22, and didn't have much of an idea about the great themes or historical context. I was overwhelmed and pretty clueless. But the following books changed my life

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'Solar': Ian McEwan's Comic Take On Global Warming

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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LONDON — A warming planet, deadlocked politicians, feuding scientists. The headlines about climate change are a source of worry and satisfaction...

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Jesus Did Not Say 'Forgive and Forget'

Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
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Anne Dilenschneider

According to the VA, at least 30% of American servicewomen (and many men) have diagnosed cases of Military Sexual Trauma, a form of PTSD. The perpetrators are usually servicemen and commanders.

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The Golden Globes a Disappointment: Gervais was Mixed and Lots of Winners Weren't Prepared

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Chloe Sevigny, Russnow, Martin Scorsese, Dexter, No Country for Old Men, The Aviator, Mo'Nique, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Atonement, Conan O'Brien, Jeff Bridges, Academy Award, The White Ribbon, James Cameron, Michael C. Hall, Inglorious Basterds, Tony Scott, Robert King, Sag, Chris Donovan, Sherlock Holmes, Golden Globe Awards, Nbc, Cecil B. DeMille, Oscar, Hbo, David Zucker, Up in the Air, Ridley Scott, Michael Russnow, Jason Reitman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Million Dollar Baby, Julianna Margulies, Golden Globes, Tonight Show, Big Love, The Good Wife, Crazy Heart, Ricky Gervais, Shutter Island, Sheldon Turner, Brooke Kennedy, The Departed, Julie & Julia, Showtime, Crash, Avatar, Germany, Grey Gardens, Sandra Bullock, Ram Productions International, Emmy Awards, Babel, Precious, Michelle King, Meryl Streep, Brokeback Mountain, Leonardo Dicaprio, Up, Christoph Waltz, The Blindside, WGA Strike, Robert Downey Jr., Golden Globes 2010, Cbs, Abc, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

The Golden Globe awards are often the best of the awards shows, because they're more freewheeling and it appears no one really takes them seriously.

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Ian McEwan's New Fiction: The Use of Poetry

The New Yorker | Ian McEwan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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It surprised no one to learn that Michael Beard had been an only child, and he would have been the first to concede that he'd never quite got the hang...

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The Tone of Our Atonement: A Meditation for Yom Kippur

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Carol Smaldino

I want to dare to pose the notion of making Yom Kippur a time for softer and longer reflections, about how to make things better, truer, safer for our insides and freer from inner terrors.

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The Scapegoat's Apology

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Collective Responsibility, Conscience, Lynndie England, War, My Lai Massacre, Atonement, William Calley, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Politics News
Robert Koehler

William Calley has apologized for his role in the My Lai massacre; now it's time to atone.

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The Morality Police and the Divine Feminine

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Morality Police, Governor Mark Sanford, Divine Feminine, Mistakes, Morals, Now, Cheating, Atonement, Cable News, S.C. Governor Mark Sanford, Forgiveness, Patriarchy, Reconciliation, Healthy Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

I am appalled at the coverage of Governor Mark Sanford's infidelity to his wife and sons. I am appalled at the moral posturing. I am appalled that we think we have the right.

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Empathy for Society's Child

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Empathy, Kentucky-Politics, Lobbyists, Janis Ian, President Obama, Addiction, David Souter, Souter Replacement, Obama, Apology, Obama Outsider, At Seventeen, Outsider, Dermotti Dawson, Bob Babbage, Louisville, Racism, Kentucky, Discrimination, Inter-Racial Dating, Louisville Courier-Journal, Lexington KY, Obama Empathy, Twelve Steps, Don McNay, Atonement, Barack Obama, Henry Clay High School, Geeks, Structured Settlements, Sports, Society's Child, Sports Illustrated, Apologies, Pittsburgh Steelers, Eastern Kentucky University, High School, Million Dollar Round Table, Confession, Lexington-Herald-Leader, Nerds, Politics News
Don McNay

I want someone on the United States Supreme Court who can look back at actions that were wrong, feel a sense of injustice and make amends, even if the act happened forty or fifty years ago.

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Joe Wright's The Soloist Exploits the Skid Row Community

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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Linda Milazzo

Instead of telling the tales of the homeless, the film portrayed them as a Fellini-esque monolith -- a tainted Gomorrah teeming with decadence and dereliction.

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Obama Doesn't Need to Atone, May Seem Out of Touch

Sam Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: John McCain, President Bush, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Mccain Atonment, Obama Atonment, Atonement, God, Oliver Stone Bush Movie, Oliver Stone, Bush Administration, Sins, Bush Atonement, Mccain Sins, Colin Powell, Oliver Stone W, Christians, Bush Evangelical, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, Hillary Clinton, Obama Sins, Home News
Sam Sanders

Many American voters want to see a person like themselves, someone who has atoned for past mistakes and is reborn as a dedicated public leader. Unfortunately, Obama does not fit in this mold.

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"Atonement" Oscar Nominee Saoirse Ronan, 13, On Life In The Spotlight

USA Today | Donna Freydkin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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In Atonement, Saoirse Ronan coolly, purposefully destroys her sister's life by accusing her lover of a rape he never committed. She's quite convincin...

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