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On the world’s free, collaboratively edited encyclopedia, even the co-founder is powerless to change his entry, for vanity ...
Nevertheless, according to Deeg, Xuanzang’s account requires careful interpretation and contextualisation before conclusions ...
Srinath Raghavan’s scholarship is unquestionable, but the absence of Indira Gandhi's ‘voice’ in his new book blunts its emotional edge ...
Engagingly composed and accessibly written, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution is a book well worth one’s time. Ron Jacobs latest book, Nowhere Land: Journeys Through a ...
With an IQ of 194 (the human average is 100), he has shattered all world memory championships. The speed of his brain is a ...
Now into his fifth spell on board, McDonald rejoined in 2019 for the group’s 50th-anniversary tour, later cancelled due to ...
The history of anti-communist purges in New York’s hotel workers’ union provides a lesson in how socialists can both gain and ...
For more than two decades, he was the stoic, unsmiling monolith at the center of American television, a man whose on-camera ...
A truism about stories (courtesy, more or less, of the novelist John Gardner) is that there are only two plots: a person goes ...
We’ve had Jane Austen biopics, biographies, screen adaptations galore. Now, her life story is told graphically, with both ...
Adam Aleksic talks about his new book 'Algospeak,' which details how algorithms are changing our vocabulary; plus, we check ...
In his rigorously researched biography of Phil and Don Everly, Barry Mazor busts some myths about the harmonizing siblings ...