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Christopher Nolan’s movie is driving new readers to Homer’s book. It’s glorious.
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Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film adaptation of The Odyssey may be a movie about “a…
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An Attempt To Build India’s “Most Livable” City
More than 25,000 people are working at the site on any given day, building a design by Norman Foster, the celebrated British architect. The city is laid out in grids and includes about a five-mile stretch of government buildings.…
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A Return To Handwriting Letters
Like so many of us, I stopped writing letters as I spent more time online. But in the past few years, I’ve begun to see handwritten letters anew, as a form of resistance against the doom and disconnection of our digital lives. –…
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‘Tear Gas’ Is a Fiction Film Shot Inside Real Protests in Georgia
Elene, 16, and her war-scarred family are drawn into a mass protest in Tbilisi that transforms the streets of the capital of Georgia into a battleground for freedom. But it also forces them to confront the conflicts that are already…
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Former UArts Building To Become Artist Housing In Philly
The news comes after the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awarded the VIA a $2.5 million grant for the building project and the establishment of on-site arts programming. – Hyperallergic
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Ukrainian cathedrals, Gaza’s archives, Iranian squares – modern war is systematically erasing human…
Wars may not take summer holidays, but they do sometimes see exhaustion. As drones race back and forth across Ukraine and the strait of Hormuz, a grim stalemate seems to have invaded the earth beneath. Aerial bombardment knows limited…
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Making A Pilgrimage To The Now-Thoroughly Commercialized Mecca
“There are few words to describe the whiplash of coming face to face with a Joe & The Juice, a Sephora and a plethora of other shops and hotels and Times Square-style billboards after going through one of the most spiritually…
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Funding Fight, Local Focus Fuels Public Radio Audience Rebound. | Story
Public radio listening is showing signs of a meaningful rebound, with new analysis from the Radio…
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As Chicago rethinks its monuments, an artist surrounds George Washington with ‘Other Washingtons’
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In Chicago, a lone statue of George Washington is now surrounded by “Other Washingtons,” which take the form of blue flags bearing the faces of…
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Americans Read Less, Buy More Homer
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