The appearance of a new work by J R R Tolkien is a major literary event. It is true that the same dark story, of the ill-starred Túrin Turambar, has appeared before, in different fragments, as part of ...

In 1873, a tailor named Jacob Davis contacted Levi Strauss, a San Francisco dry goods business owner, about rivets he fastened to pants to reinforce their pockets. Davis and Strauss filed a patent for ...

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Daisy Johnson was the youngest-ever author to be shortlisted for the Booker prize, for Everything Under (2018), a gender-fluid reimagining of the Oedipus myth that appeared when she was twenty-seven.

Citic Press, a leading Chinese publishing institution, announced it will release the physical edition of Shadow Deity Illustrations, an art book depicting all the characters from the action ...

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Austrian composer Johann Strauss II was born in Vienna on October 25, 1825. World famous for his Viennese waltzes, including 'The Blue Danube,' Strauss is one of the defining figures in 19th ...

And with pregnancy, parenting a toddler, and my mom’s illness, I didn’t have the wherewithal to get it checked out at the time. I also knew Dr. J would likely explain my pain away with my weight, as ...

And with pregnancy, parenting a toddler, and my mom’s illness, I didn’t have the wherewithal to get it checked out at the time. I also knew Dr. J would likely explain my pain away with my ...

I enjoyed telling people that metaphorically, I was a cousin of Tom Joad, the John Steinbeck character, which may also explain my delight in the soulful music of Willie Nelson and Woody Guthrie.