"Do Not Bend To The Forces Trying To Change Us."
Death and taxes, yes, but even more so, one thing life most certainly brings is change. We are creatures of movement — from house to house, job to job, state to state, friend to friend. Our lives are punctuated by where we go, when we go there, and how it all plays out. Hence, today, as we move from the work week into the weekend, we’ve collected for you a sampling of articles that chronicle life’s eternal rhythm. Churchill brought much change to England. Read about his impact on Great Britain between the two World Wars. Poets routinely shift subjects, meter. Jerome Rothenberg is no different. Check out his undulating verse in Rain Taxi. Juan Goytisolo was a Spanish writer. But his influence traveled the world. The Independent has more. Google is changing the world’s text from the printed word to the digitized one. The Economist weighs in. The noted Korean translator, Insoo Lee moves out of obscurity and into the limelight. Finally, Cormac McCarthy knows a thing or two about transition. His novel The Road describes the ultimate change: a planet depleted of life. Watch the movie trailer below. Happy weekend, and remember your walking shoes. — Kevin Murphy
