The Vagrancy Act needs to be scrapped – we have to end homelessness for good
The Independent via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoThe Liberal Democrats have been campaigning for this Dickensian act to be abolished for years....
Why Reading Proust Is the Perfect Big Lockdown Project
The Daily Beast· 6 days agoAt more than 3,000 pages, “In Search of Lost Time” is a literary Everest, but in the midst of...
Reviewing the Book Review
New York Times· 1 day agoAs the publication celebrates its 125th anniversary, Parul Sehgal, a staff critic and former editor at the Book Review, delves into the archives to...
Lou Ursone (opinion): After topping Giving Day, Curtain Call asks supporters to take a bow
Stamford Advocate· 10 hours agoAs Stamford’s only year-round nonprofit producing theater company, we are blessed to have so many...
Virus diary
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 3 days agoIt's apparently not enough for Britons to endure almost 120,000 covid-19 deaths and face a new variant of the virus scientists say is more contagious and...
A Georgetown professor trades her classroom for a police beat
Portland Press Herald· 6 days agoA decade ago, Sudhir Venkatesh, a Columbia University professor of sociology, made quite a splash...
Netflix's 'The Irregulars' is on the case with a terrifying twist on the Sherlock Holmes mythos
Sci Fi Wire· 5 days agoNot too long after Netflix's latest addition to the Sherlock Holmes canon — the scene-stealing...
The Marvellous, Forgotten Stories of A. E. Coppard
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For H.M. Naqvi, COVID-19 is a creative spur
Nikkei Asian Review· 2 days agoIf there is one bright spot amid the world’s COVID-19 lockdowns it is that solitary writers are finding the time, concentration and motivation to rush...
Robert Maxwell, Not Rupert Murdoch, Was the Real-Life Logan Roy
InsideHook via Yahoo News· 2 days agoWhen Bruce Springsteen sang “Rich man wanna be king / And a king ain’t satisfied ’til he rules...