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10 of the best words in the world (that don't translate into English)

Jul 28 2018: One of the many great things about languages worldwide is the sizeable number of words for which there is no real English translation. Often they tell us about concepts and ideas that we are missing out on in the anglophone world.

As the northern hemisphere heads ...

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'Lost chapters' of Malcolm X's autobiography sold at auction

Jul 28 2018: "Lost" material from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, reportedly seen as too controversial to publish in the 1960s, has emerged this week at an auction in New York.

Along with the original typed manuscript, which reveals the back and forth between the black activist ...

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Revisiting Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" on the bicentennial of her birth

Jul 27 2018: Even the light of 200 birthday candles couldn’t pierce the gloom of "Wuthering Heights." But the fire that burned within Emily Brontë roars across the centuries.

How remarkable that on the bicentennial of her birth, this reclusive woman should still be crying at our ...

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Man Booker Prize longlist released

Jul 24 2018: The Guardian posted the Man Booker Prize longlist early, in advance of Wednesday's scheduled announcement, and then promptly took it down. But the list survived in the Google cache and across social media and thus is now public.

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Author of "Stig of the Dump", Clive King, dies aged 94

Jul 16 2018: Clive King, who has died aged 94, was the author of several children's books and is best known for Stig of the Dump, the original and imaginative fantasy story of the friendship between Barney, a boy of the modern era, with Stig, a boy from long, long ago who lives in a...

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Movies based on books take 53% more on average at the box office than original screenplays

Jul 10 2018: Films based on books might have the intolerable disadvantage of people smugly claiming "the book is so much better", but they also result in a huge boost at the box office.

According to new research from the Publishers Association, films based on books take 44% more ...

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Anne Tyler has something to say...

Jul 09 2018: The New York Times has a rare interview with Anne Tyler to coincide with the publication of her latest novel, Clock Dance. Tyler rarely does interviews because she dislikes the way they make her feel the next morning. "I'll go upstairs to my writing room to do my ...

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Michael Ondaatje’s 'The English Patient' wins Golden Man Booker Prize in honor of the Prize's 50th anniversary.

Jul 09 2018: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient (Bloomsbury), the story of an injured, anonymous English WWII pilot and his Italian nurse, has been named the winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize, awarded to the best work of fiction previously awarded the Man Booker Prize over ...

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