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Sunday, July 07, 2019

TF: ‘This Book has Won No Prizes’ Escape

Happy Birthday TF 1984 was written in 1948 IIL


 As any totalitarianism ... Iron Curtain is one of the hardest but most important warnings for us today. Perpetrators were ordinary people. They accepted an ideology that rationalized and promoted hatred & evil. It became their everyday live. This is the scary part of the story. . .

Cold River: The Cold Truth of Freedom: Jozef Imrich

 


‘I learned that most people want to tell their story, no matter how devastating it is’

 

How Good Omens was inspired by this controversial book in the Bible


A fictional book written by a witch in the 17th century drives the plot of Good Omens, but a very real and controversial book provides much of the apocalyptic inspiration.






Alice Oswald elected Oxford professor of poetry by huge margin | Books | The GuardianOswald will be the first woman to serve in the role, established three centuries ago.


Meet the undercover brothel investigator who gets paid to be ...


BEING an undercover brothel investigator who gets paid to have sex might sound like a dream job for ...






To constantly pursue something you can never catch is a form of madness. Yet that's exactly what we do by pursuing happiness 




Our swimming pools, our selves. In place of the 20th-century throng of public bathing, we have the immersive solipsism of the infinity Pool  


A history of human imagination. Why the ability to see what isn't there is "the most essential bit of machinery  we have  
Death of the anonymous author. If algorithms can pinpoint the identity of a writer — say, Elena Ferrante — does art as a whole lose out?... Ferrante