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Two books on Pope Leo paint a picture of a potentially transformative leader
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A hidden feminist gem in Prague: Jiřina Šiklová Library offers over 9,000 books on feminism, gender and queerness
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From Greece, a thirst for knowledge: Ireland and the Odyssey
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Living in Tanizaki’s Shadows | Nippon.com
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Translators of Taiwanese literature discuss language, culture in Poland
Translators, academics and publishers from across Europe this week gathered in Poland to discuss the challenges of bringing…
Maria Reva wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award for ‘Endling’ | National Entertainment
TORONTO – “Endling,” Maria Reva’s metafictional exploration of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has won the Amazon Canada First…
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I had the chance to revisit my younger self the other day when I watched François Ozon’s adaptation…
The Scandal Over a Supposedly AI-Written, Award-Winning Short Story Is Troubling. Or Just Mean?
When there was social media chatter on Monday about an AI-written short story supposedly having won a “prestigious…
What America’s editors said about communism and the Berlin Blockade
That the Communists do not have as one of their textbooks Dale Carnegie’s treatise on how to make…
‘Sympathy is always for the migrant – never for the people paying for them.’
All across the West, immigration is consistently named as one of the most pressing concerns of our time.…