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  19 hours ago

  The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton review – bold and thrilling sequel to The Miniaturist

  The Guardian - Alex Preston

  There’s a peculiar austerity to Jessie Burton’s writing. It’s interesting that she should have started her career – with the million-selling The Miniaturist (2014) – in Amsterdam during the last years of the Dutch golden age, when the wealth of the Calvinist Netherlands was matched only by its …

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  Jan 25, 2007

  (1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •

  blackpast.org - by contributed by: BlackPast

  On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his …

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  Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

  The Marginalian - Maria Popova

  Where the hard edge of physics meets the vulnerable metaphysics of the human heart. Few people have enchanted the popular imagination with science more powerfully and lastingly than physicist Richard Feynman (May 11, 1918–February 15, 1988) — the “Great Explainer” with the uncommon gift for bridging …

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  Lou Andreas-Salomé, the First Woman Psychoanalyst, on Human Nature in Letters to Freud

  The Marginalian - Maria Popova

  “The main thing is that life-faith is essentially and vitally present, by means of which we survive.” Russian-born poet, essayist, and intellectual Lou Andreas-Salomé (February 12, 1861–February 5, 1937) created for herself a freedom that modern women have come to expect, at a time when such freedom …

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  Essential reading: literary voices respond to the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.

  lithub.com - Emily Temple

  As you might have heard, on Friday, the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, eliminating Americans’ constitutional …

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  The International Booker Prize effect: how Tomb of Sand made literary history | The Booker Prizes

  thebookerprizes.com

  Thursday 26th May was a balmy early-summer evening and an excited crowd of authors, translators and publishers from across the world had gathered in …