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Alice Munro, Nobel Prize winner and ‘master of the short story,’ dies at 92
CNN via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoThere, Munro wholly immersed herself in literature, namely writers such as Eudora Welty, Flannery...
Alice Munro, Master of Short Story, Dies at 92
Time via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoAs a high school student, Munro’s passion for literature catapulted her to academic success. In 1949, she became her high school class valedictorian and...
One of Our Great Authors Just Died. This Is the Book That Explains Why People Loved Her So Much.
Slate via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoAbove all, she resisted every attempt to make her write a novel. Born into the Great Depression, a...
Military Book Review The Enigma Traitors: Spy and Counterspy in World War II
Strategy Page· 4 hours agoDermot Turing, who has written several books about Bletchley Park and its code-breakers—including his uncle Alan—has now written about the other side of communications security. Why did both ...
Newspaper review: King's new portrait and US warnings to Georgia
BBC via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoAlso catching the eye is the paper's tribute to Alice Munro - the first Canadian to win the Nobel ...
COVID patient testing, isolation of sick staff cut in-hospital viral spread, modeling study suggests
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy· 20 hours agoThe study period spanned the predominance of different viral variants and the availability of...
Alice Munro, Prolific Short-Story Author and Nobel Laureate, Has Died at 92
The Wall Street Journal· 19 hours agoMunro, who was often compared with Chekhov, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2013....
A third of US food outbreaks and 3,500 illnesses tied to non-irradiated eligible food
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy· 22 hours agoOf 482 US foodborne outbreaks caused by four common bacteria from 2009 to 2022, 32.2%—involving more...
Roundup of 2024 Pulitzer Prizes for literature
Republican-American· 2 days agoA beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War where a severely wounded Union...
'Back to Black' brings Amy Winehouse story to big screen
Reuters· 5 hours agoThe movie, distributed by Focus Features, chronicles Winehouse's upbringing in a Jewish family, her...