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Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of “Amsterdam,” “Atonement,” “Saturday” and, most recently, “On Chesil Beach,” will read as part of the UT Michener Center for Writers‘ literary series at 7:30 pm on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at the Blanton Museum of Art/Edgar A. Smith Building Auditorium, Martin Luther King Boulevard at Congress Avenue.

The literary world has bestowed its highest honors on McEwan’s 10 novels and two short fiction collections: the Somerset Maugham Award, the Whitbread Novel Award, The Prix
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An undated Persian manuscript containing Rubáiyát stanzas

In conjunction with the exhibition The Persian Sensation: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in the West, the Harry Ransom Center presents the Poetry on the Plaza event Persian Poetry on Wednesday, March 4, at noon.

English graduate student Yaser Amad, Austin musician and artist Koorosh Angali, Middle Eastern Librarian Robin Dougherty, and Michelle Kaiserlian, co-curator of The Persian Sensation, will perform selections by Omar Khayyám, Rumi, and other classical Persian poets.

Refreshments will be served at
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Philip Bobbitt

University of Texas at Austin Professor Philip Bobbitt will be at the School of Law today, March 2, at 5:30 p.m. to discuss and sign his latest book, “Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century” (Knopf Publishing, 2008).

In the lead essay of The New York Times Sunday Book Review, historian Niall Ferguson called Bobbitt’s book “the most profound book to have been written on the subject of American foreign policy since the attacks of 9/11—indeed, since
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