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    By Lucy Kogler  March 30, 2020
    Capitalism

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    Alli Warren Translates Five Books into Poems

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    Nobel laureate in literature releases 17 minute prose poem about JFK’s assassination.

    By Emily Temple  March 27, 2020
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    Romanian novelist and prominent anti-communist Paul Goma has died of coronavirus.

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    Sir Patrick Stewart is reading a Shakespeare sonnet a day on Instagram.

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    Remember Annie’s anti-book-banning speech in Field of Dreams?

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