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The 12 Greatest Fantasy Books Of The Year
The definitive list of the best works of fantasy and everything related to witches, elves and most importantly…dragons this year.
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10 novels written in the 1950s we love even more today
Unlike us forgetful, breakable and generally unreliable human folk, good old books get better and better with age. Or, at least, the books themselves stay the same, but our appreciation of them grows.
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reaching out in the water
WHEN I TURN AROUND, I SEE YOU ARE STILL WHERE I HAD SEEN you the last time, with your legs ankle-deep into the water. You seem to be unmoving, placid, as if rooted to the spot. The stream is still,...
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Voyage of a lifetime
THIRTY-SIX YEARS AGO, AN IRREVERSIBLE, ARDUOUS AND painstaking process was set to motion. On September 5, 1977, NASA launched a space probe by the name Voyager I. This probe was instigated with the...
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Blue : An erotic thriller
Short story by Shrinkhal Shrestha. (Safe for work)
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Down with red ink: A teacher's confession
A decade has gone by since I started teaching English to children...
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Lego Rivendell Is 'LOTR' Fantasy Land Made From 200K Bricks
Lego enthusiasts Alice Finch and David Frank created a massive brick replica of Rivendell, the Elven outpost from 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy.
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15 timeless observations from history’s greatest dystopian novels
The dystopian novel has a long, dark and intriguing history. Kicking off in 1726 with Jonathan Swift’s rip-roaring satire Gulliver’s Travels, it’s gone through numerous transformations in the last three centuries. One thing all these books share, though, is that they make us think long and hard about the societies we live in.
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Best Books About the Rest of the World
From the catastrophe unfolding in Pakistan to a great novel about Yugoslavia, here are 10 books about the rest of the world that deserve your attention writes Kapil Komireddi.
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The Smartest Book About Our Digital Age Was Published in 1929
How José Ortega y Gasset's ‘The Revolt of the Masses’ helps us understand everything from YouTube to ‘Duck Dynasty.’
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Amiri Baraka, poet and firebrand, dies at 79
The writer, once known as LeRoi Jones, was a provocative voice of the Black Arts movement of the 1960s.
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Absinthe: How the Green Fairy became literature’s drink
It has inspired many great authors of the last 150 years – and may have ruined some as well. Jane Ciabattari investigates the green spirit’s peculiar power.
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See The Original Alice In Wonderland Manuscript, Handwritten & Illustrated By Lewis Carroll (1864)
The original version of Alice in Wonderland that Carroll presented to Alice Liddell in 1864, is presently housed in the British Library, which has graciously made it freely available online.
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Dan Brown's 'Inferno' tops all book sales in 2013
Dan Brown's 'Inferno:' top bestseller in 2013
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1984 by George Orwell (free in text format)
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel by George Orwell published in 1949. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public mind control, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or, in the government's invented language, Newspeak, called Ingsoc) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite.
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An interesting take on both The Metamorphosis and The Fly
I woke up one morning recently to discover that I was a seventy-year-old man. Is this different from what happens to Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis?
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The Mysterious Book That Nobody Can Read Or Decipher
It's a book that contains 360 pages, is based on an imaginary world and comes complete with pages upon pages of hand-drawn illustrations that are both surreal and abstract in nature. For example, t...
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The Deathbed Confessions of William Butler Yeats
Seventy-five years ago today—on January 28, 1939—William Butler Yeats died at a boarding house on the French Riviera. He was 73 years old, at the height of his fame and glory. “Mr. Yeats frequently let his mind roam far afield in the realm of fancy,” gushed the New York Times obituary, “and it is for the gentle beauty of such works that he was hailed by many as the greatest poet of his time in the English language.”
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The Dark Origins of 11 Classic Nursery Rhymes
In the canon of great horror writing, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley tend to dominate the craft. But Mother Goose isn’t too far behind. Yes, that fictional grande dame of kiddie poems has got a bit of a dark streak, as evidenced by the unexpectedly sinister theories surrounding the origins of these 11 well-known nursery rhymes.
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Is the News Replacing Literature?
In the postwar period, a generation of critics, inspired by Lionel Trilling, encapsulated the difference between high art and popular art in a single word: “complexity.” “Literature,” Trilling wrote, “is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity and difficulty.”
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