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Top 10 AMAZING books about the Irish famine EVERYONE should read
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Here are the top ten amazing books about the Irish famine everyone should read. A devastating time in Irish history, the great potato famine brought the Irish face to face with disease, starvation, and emigration. The famine place between 1845 and 1852 while Ireland was…
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Shh… Delhi is reading! | Events Movie News
Whether it’s reading a book silently or discussing a literary text, there are many book clubs and reading communities across the city, encouraging bibliophiles to do what they love the most – read. While some groups read in public places like gardens, a few prefer to walk together to a bookstore or a cafe –…
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Exhibit features illustrations from children’s books
MUSKEGON — The Muskegon Museum of Art will host an exhibition of illustrations by award-winning visual artist and children’s book author, Oliver Jeffers. The Muskegon Museum of Art is hosting an “Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books” through May 26. Courtesy photo The exhibit opened Thursday, March 14. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript…
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Crime Novels and Islamic Manuscripts Feature in New Cambridge University Library Exhibitions
Cambridge University Library will draw on its collections of crime fiction for a new exhibition opening later this month. Murder by the Book: A Celebration of 20th Century British Crime Fiction will focus on the stories of the UK’s most popular fiction writing. Curated by crime novelist Nicola Upson, it will challenge traditional distinctions between…
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2 Novels to Make You Sweat and Shiver
A love affair between jurors; reclaiming a classic. Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times Dear readers, Could I interest you in a literary field trip to the sauna? The oak branch whipping is optional. The cold plunge is not. Every so often these shocks to the system are tremendously welcome: a way to clear…
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20 books with a disabled character as the lead or focus of the story
How often have you read a book with a disabled character, let alone a protagonist? Bookworm Raya runs-down about eight books with a disabled character as the lead or where they are the focus, many of which have since been made into popular films. In 2024 we updated this post to find 12 bonus books…
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The Best Books of 2024 (So Far)
James centers on a seminal character from American literature—and yet, seen afresh through Everett’s revelatory gaze, it’s as if we’re meeting him for the first time. Blasted clean of Mark Twain’s characterization from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the enslaved runaway Jim emerges here as a man of great dignity, altruism, and intelligence. The novel…
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Choosing America’s Greatest Novels
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. The idea of a settled canon, one that towers Mount Rushmore–like above us, is boring. I’ll admit that some books and authors, after enough centuries have passed and their influence seems without question,…
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AI translation: how to train ‘the horses of enlightenment’
‘Translators are stage horses of enlightenment,” the poet Alexander Pushkin wrote in the margin of one of his manuscripts. Two centuries later, the political scientist Steven Weber similarly compared translation to transportation: not of people and goods but of ideas and knowledge. Just as the world swapped horses for mechanical means of transport, multilingual communication…
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An Irish writing professor’s seven-stop literary crawl of Dublin
John Piekos/Getty Images Dublin has been home to and produced a disproportionate number of the English-speaking world’s most important writers, poets and playwrights (Credit: John Piekos/Getty Images) Christopher Morash, Trinity College Dublin’s Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing, takes you on a tour of literary Dublin, from James Joyce’s Martello Tower to a pint at…