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Dueling Proverbs

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Spanning Seven Centuries, ‘Judging a Book by its Cover’ Celebrates an Enduring Art | Colossal

FEBRUARY 14, 2024 GRACE EBERT The Whole Booke of Psalmes. London: Company of Stationers, 1643. All images courtesy of The Grolier Club, An exhibition in New York counters the monotonous, machine-printed images we’re all too familiar with with bespoke designs. … Continue reading

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Wonders Of A Loner | “The Guest House” by Rumi

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And Peace Shall Return – Ben Okri | Emergence Magazine

Twenty thousand years into the future, an exploration of the Earth uncovers the final notes and unfinished stories left behind by the last sentient human beings in the twilight of their history. Source: And Peace Shall Return

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BBC Radio 4 – Love Stories, A Many-Splendoured Thing, Part 1

A new dramatisation of Han Suyin’s landmark novel of passion and revolution in Hong Kong. The story follows Suyin, a doctor and writer, living and working in late 1940s Hong Kong. When Suyin meets British war reporter Mark, she embarks … Continue reading

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The politics of fiction | Elif Shafak

istening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics. […]

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Sometimes the student is already the master 🧘

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The Sinister Secrets Lurking in the Jack and Jill Nursery Rhyme

Step into a realm where childhood innocence intertwines with chilling mysteries as we delve deep into the haunting origins of the beloved nursery rhyme, “Jack and Jill.” Prepare to have your perception shattered as we uncover the hidden layers of … Continue reading

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BBC Radio 4 – Open Book, George Orwell Now

Chris Power surveys Orwell’s complex legacy with Anna Funder, Adam Biles and Sandra Newman Eric Arthur Blair remains best known for his contrary and often contradictory writing persona George Orwell, an enduring and much mythologised figure known for penning searing … Continue reading

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BBC Radio 4 – Helen Lewis: Great Wives, Series 1, Thanks for Typing

Helen Lewis meets the life partners of history’s most famous geniuses. For two decades, Great Lives on Radio 4 has explored what it takes to change the world. But Helen Lewis wants to ask a different question: what does it … Continue reading

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