The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 25 to No 1
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish ...
100 Indian stories in English translation: From Odia literature's Bamacharan Mitra to Rajasthan's Vijaydan Detha, the making of an anthology
From Bengal to Maharashtra and from the Hindi heartland to the four southern states, editor AJ Thomas has curated a sampling ...
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How 19th-Century Guidebooks Shaped the Way Visitors Saw New York
"Wish You Were Here" at the Grolier Club explores two centuries of NYC tourism using guidebooks, postcards, and other ...
The history of The Onion, as told by someone there at the start
Christine Wenc, the author of "Funny Because It's True", will speak Tuesday about how she chronicled the satirical ...
Rolling Stone27d
Best Picture Oscar Winners of the 21st Century, Ranked
The Oscars have been around for almost 100 years now, celebrating a medium that was born in the last few years of the 19th century, became the art form du jour of the 20th century and continues to ...
Book explores life of Vera Miles, Oklahoma-born actress who starred in 'Psycho,' 'The Searchers'
Vera Miles was born in Boise City, Oklahoma. A new biography tells how participating in pageants put her on a path to stardom ...
National Catholic Register11dOpinion
Demographic Crisis Poses a Greater Threat to the West Than Ever Before, Scholar Warns
For Mads Larsen, 20th-century feminism has created an unprecedented fertility crisis — ‘worse than World War II; worse than ...
The New York Times9d
With 100 Pounds of Blue Pigment, an Artist Conjures Spirits of the Past
Carver was an amateur painter who developed and patented his own pigments, including a Prussian blue, from the Alabama soil Black farmers worked at the turn of the 20th century. Williams first ...
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11 Of The Best Opera & Classical Music Festivals
For fans of classical music and opera, this summer’s festivals offer some of the best excuses for a short luxury break.
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PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS Showrunners Developing New POWER RANGERS TV Series For Disney+
It's been revealed that a new small screen Power Rangers reboot is in the works, this time for Disney+ and it's heading our ...
Scientific American5d
The Nation’s Chief Engineers Turn to Nature to Improve Flood Protection
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has uncharacteristically been working with nature instead of bulldozing it into submission.