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     Michael Alexander, poet and broadcaster whose Anglo-Saxon translations were used in Kenneth Clark’s...

     The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months ago

     Michael Alexander, who has died aged 82, was a translator, poet, academic and broadcaster whose...

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     Patricia Cornwell's 6 favorite books to read over and over again

     The Week via Yahoo News· 5 months ago

     Patricia Cornwell. When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission....

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     The Irrepressible Freshness of Robert Frost

     The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 months ago

     Robert Frost. (Picture via Getty Images) When readers think of modernist poetry, chances are that T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece “The Waste Land” comes to...

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     'Perhaps the future of the world then was to women?' - Parade's End turns 100

     Euronews via Yahoo News· 1 week ago

     If the centenary is an appropriate anniversary for assessing a book’s staying power, then it’s...

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     The Age of Cultural Stagnation

     The New Republic via Yahoo News· 1 month ago

     It is the age of signing open letters, then issuing apologies for signing them a few days later; of fretting about the effect of AI on human creativity,...

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     Gerald Stern, prize-winning and lyrical poet, dies at 97

     The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year ago

     Gerald Stern, one of the country’s most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy...

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     With this Christmas classic, the audiobook was born

     The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 1 year ago

     Sometimes it's the afterthought — not the thought — that counts. The Gettysburg Address? A two-minute addendum, by Lincoln, to someone else's lengthy...

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     The Secret History turns 30: the enduring cult appeal of Donna Tartt’s campus novel

     The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years ago

     Why has no one made ‘The Secret History’ into a film? And does Donna Tartt really take her pet pugs...

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     Percival Everett Is Messing With You

     The New Republic via Yahoo News· 2 months ago

     Percival Everett is a compulsive problem solver who doesn’t care much whether he ultimately arrives at a solution. As he told Paris Review seven years...

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      Poet and playwright Bernard Kops dies aged 97

      Press Association News via AOL· 2 months ago

      Poet and playwright Bernard Kops has died “peacefully” surrounded by his loved ones at the age of 97, his family has announced. Throughout his career, he...