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It’s a good month for criticism in the literary world, with new books in April exploring everything from early-’00s feminism to modern TV and video games. On the fiction side, there’s a new ...

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Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East. By Leonard S. Marcus Laurie Halse Anderson returns to the ...

Camille Aubert wasn't looking for a new job. She just wanted to return a lost love letter she'd found within the pages of a book. But when she's mistaken for a job candidate and hired as Jack's ...

Notably missing from this historical account is the relatively recent discovery of atomic phenomena: the energy released in splitting an atom’s nucleus (first demonstrated in 1939) and the energy from ...

Sue Roe's new book details how while on holiday with his wife, Picasso installed his mistress in a beach hut - then took up with another! But then came… After Amy Griffin narrowly lost a school ...

The results were surprising – and the explanation was elusive. “A number of possible explanations for the effect have been proposed,” then-University of California Riverside physicist ...

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