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‘Two sleeps’ and devotional practices: a look at how people slept in the 17th century
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 11 hours agoThe vicar’s poetry, written in the Welsh language, may have also served as a tool to spread the ideas of the Protestant Reformation in Wales. His poems are collected in a ...
A Guide to Ismail Kadare’s Books
New York Times· 1 day agoKadare received the inaugural International Booker Prize in 2005. Ismail Kadare, the most celebrated Albanian author in a generation, was a prolific...
Ismail Kadare, 88, Dies; His Novels Brought Albania’s Plight to the World
New York Times· 2 days agoOften compared to Orwell and Kafka, he walked a political tightrope with works that offered veiled...
Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Chest Binders
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 4 days agoESME (44A: Writer Weijun Wang) The debut novel of ESMÉ Weijun Wang, The Border of Paradise, was...
Inside the Legal Feud Over Noise That Threatened California's Best Racetrack
Road & Track via Yahoo Finance Canada· 4 days agoWhile an “I was here first” defense works for siblings in a sandbox, 150 years of nuisance case law...
A Poet Who Withholds Blessings, and Makes It Impossible to Look Away
New York Times· 7 days agoFrederick Seidel’s 19th book, “So What,” is filled with politics, disease, luxury and provocation. Daisy Fried is the author of four volumes of poetry, most recently a book of adaptations from Baudelaire, “The Year the City Emptied.”