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- The Vagrancy Act needs to be scrapped – we have to end homelessness for good
  The Independent via Yahoo News· 6 hours ago
  The 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 ago
  At 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 ago
  As 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 ago
  As Stamford’s only year-round nonprofit producing theater company, we are blessed to have so many...
- Virus diary
  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 3 days ago
  It'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 ago
  A 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 ago
  Not too long after Netflix's latest addition to the Sherlock Holmes canon — the scene-stealing...
- The Marvellous, Forgotten Stories of A. E. Coppard
  The New Yorker· 4 days ago
  Then I taught a seminar on the modern American short story in the Columbia Graduate Writing Program and assigned Frank O’Connor’s “The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story” to help guide ...
- For H.M. Naqvi, COVID-19 is a creative spur
  Nikkei Asian Review· 2 days ago
  If 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 ago
  When Bruce Springsteen sang “Rich man wanna be king / And a king ain’t satisfied ’til he rules...