The idea that Homer's epic tales, The Iliad and The Odyssey, were originally set in Scandinavia is a fascinating and controversial hypothesis. This theory, most notably proposed by Italian researcher…
Abdel Kader Haidara is a Malian librarian whose story is recounted in Joshua Hammer's essay, "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu (And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts)."…
"The immortals" is what members of the French Academy, founded by Cardinal de Richelieu, are called. The French Academy is cultivating a new friendship today - with Vladimir Putin. The…
The Publishing House Puffin (an imprint of Penguin) is at it again. A language of the past that seems less inclusive or (God forbid!) exclusive is now censored to suit…
Anne Rice passed away on Saturday in the suites of a stroke, her son Christopher Rice announced via the author's social media. According to her son, she fell asleep surrounded…
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