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    Mel Brooks on the Making of Spaceballs

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    Antifascism

    Breaking the Cycle: Confronting Fascism in Chile’s Presidential Election

    By Mónica-Ramón Ríos and Carlos Labbé  December 16, 2021
    Bookstores

    A Visit to Rüstem’s Bookshop, Cyprus’s Historic Bookstore-Café

    By Harrison Blackman  December 16, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Demystifying Absentmindedness with Lisa Genova’s Remember

    By Book Dreams  December 16, 2021
    Philosophy

    What the Stoics Understood About Death (And Can Teach Us)

    By David Fideler  December 16, 2021
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    Just the Right Book

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    The Hub

    bell hooks, generous feminist thinker, has died at 69.

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    The creators of Gossip Girl are about to ruin Sweet Valley High.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  December 15, 2021
    The Hub

    Area library receives anonymous confession of theft and $500 in restitution.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 15, 2021
    Writing

    How to Write (Almost) Anything: A Very Serious Guide by Tom Bissell

    By Tom Bissell  December 15, 2021
    Film

    Five Medieval Tales That Should Immediately Be Made Into Movies

    By Matthew Gabriele and David Perry  December 15, 2021
    Christianity

    A Case for Withdrawing the Genre of “Christian Fiction”

    By Chelsea Leah  December 15, 2021
    Film History

    “Garbo Talks!” On the 1930 Sound Film That Gave Greta a Voice

    By Robert Gottlieb  December 15, 2021
    2021

    Notable Literary Deaths in 2021

    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2021
    Musicians

    To Write a Revolution on the Sky: On the Radical Legacy of Curtis Mayfield

    By Ayana Contreras  December 15, 2021
    Creativity

    How a Sense of Awe Can Ignite Creativity

    By Emily Willingham  December 15, 2021
    Greek Literature

    Excavating the Insights of a Once Beloved Greek Novelist

    By Johanna Hanink  December 15, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The Korean Vegan Cookbook by Joanne Lee Molinaro, Read by the Author

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    The Hub

    PRH and S&S call the lawsuit against them “legally, factually, and economically wrong.”

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    Colm Tóibín has won the 2021 David Cohen Prize for Literature.

    By Snigdha Koirala  December 14, 2021
    The Hub

    Reminder: the most famous short story in American literature was written in one day.

    By Walker Caplan  December 14, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    The Urgency of Rachel Carson’s Sea Trilogy in a Time of Climate Crisis

    By Sandra Steingraber  December 14, 2021
    Tourism

    How “Dark Tourism” Warps Our Understanding of History

    By Hasanthika Sirisena  December 14, 2021
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