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Alan Moore
‘I’m bursting with fiction’: Alan Moore announces five-volume fantasy epic
The Guardian - Alison Flood
Two years after announcing that he had retired from comics, Alan Moore, the illustrious author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta, has signed a six-figure deal for a “groundbreaking” five-volume fantasy series...
3 days ago
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Space
How the space race changed Soviet art
BBC Future - Stephen Dowling
It stands outside the gates of the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy, the giant trade-show-meets-amusement-park intended to show off the might of Soviet industry and science. It was built...
Apr 27
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Books
How literature can help you better connect with others
ted.com - Beth Ann Fennelly
Greetings from an evangelist for a declining field: literature! English majors, like all humanities majors, are on the wane. In the US alone, …
Apr 26
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Soviet Union
The Beautiful, Innovative & Sometimes Dark World of Animated Soviet Propaganda (1925-1984)
openculture.com - by Colin Marshall
Growing up, we assembled our worldview from several different sources: parents, siblings, classmates. But for most of us, wherever and whenever we …
Apr 20
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Orientalism
Activist, Professor, Politician, Aesthete — the many contradictions of Edward Said
forward.com - Jackson Arn
You could read any of Edward Said’s books, but you couldn’t take them home with you. Looking back, this was obviously a metaphor for something or …
Apr 20