Articles with keyword "books"
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Newton, The Last Magician
The great man of science had more than a passing interest in alchemy.
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Mo Yan 101
Sometime in the late 1960s or early seventies, a neighbor told Guan Moye about a writer he knew whose work was so popular that he could afford to eat jiaozi—“those tasty little pork dumplings
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A Very Hungry Reader
Massachusetts focuses on the food imagery in Eric Carle's illustrations.
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Bedtime Stories
Did you hear the one about the Japanese villagers who performed burial rights for an American World War II pilot by following the text of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake?
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Milton and the Cultures of Print
New Jersey exhibits a rare collection from Milton's library.
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City Desk
Renaissance diarist Marin Sanudo’s political ambitions nearly truncated his accomplishment as a daily recorder of events in what was arguably the world’s most powerful and dynamic city of the day, Ven





