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Findings: Mavis Gallant, a documentary portrait

 Author Mavis Gallant, who died Tuesday ageed 91, moved to Europe from her native Canada intending to write. She succeeded, becoming one of the world’s acclaimed masters of the short story. She lived for nearly 50 years in the same apartment in Paris, where in 2012 Rome-based journalist Megan Williams spent almost a week interviewing her, recording material for the radio documentary portrait The Four Seasons of Mavis Gallant. It was broadcast by the Ideas radio program of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Further reading:The New Yorker, which published about 100 of Mavis Gallant’s stories, offers  a selection of her stories

Findings: Ukraine protests in real time

Espreso TV, an independent outlet in Ukraine, has a live video broadcast of the bloody clash in Kiev between protesters and authorities. Nine people have died in today’s confrontation, reports the BBC.

Findings: social media matters

The big picture matters. Yesterday a heart-wrenching photo on Twitter spread wildly. It appeared to show a little boy separated from his family as they fled Syria’s violence: “UN staff found 4 year-old Marwan crossing desert alone after being separated from family…”   UN staff found 4 year-old Marwan crossing desert alone after being separated from family fleeing #Syria. pic.twitter.com/YdCt7gZrcN — Hala Gorani (@HalaGorani) February 17, 2014   After we’d wrung our hands raw about the poor kid, hours later, the full story emerged: the Tweet showed only a tiny portion of a busy crowd scene — and while the

The way of wolves

Some 20 years ago gray wolves were re-introduced to Yellowstone Park in the United States. Their impact has been a transformation of an ecosystem, in ways that few scientists had imagined. But even as the animals are celebrated as a “keystone” species their future remains in doubt, and their reputation in some circles is as villainous as ever. Excerpt of a new Free Range column by Deborah Jones, Wolves as Ecosystems Engineers: Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs have a lot to answer for: thanks partly to fairy tales, wolves have a ghastly and global reputation as big

F&O Weekend

F&O wraps up the week with an eclectic range of slow journalism from the past, present and future:  Critical Assembly: A Drama Critic Remembers Berlin. Two years before the wall came down, in 1987, historian and author Brian Brennan joined 139 other writers from 40 countries in Berlin, for an international conference on theatre on the 750th anniversary of Berlin’s founding. The meeting was fractious: “it seemed some of us would never agree on where to go for a good plate of liver dumplings, much less agree on how theatre could be made more relevant to our day-to-day lives,” he recalls.

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